Memos by Brian Swichkow

• Hermes Slash Command
• claw migrate
• /compress
• /steer
• Nous Portal
• Hermes Terminal UI
• Hermes Container Hardening
• MCP for Personal Knowledge Systems

  MCP for personal knowledge systems is the practice of using the Model Context Protocol to connect a personal knowledge base — notes, memos, documents, research — to AI models as persistent,...

• The Augmentation Stack

  The Augmentation Stack is a four-layer architecture — Memory → Mind → Mouth → Myth — for building human-AI augmentation systems that compound over time rather than resetting with each interaction....

• AI Memory Systems

  AI memory systems are the tools and architectures that give Artificial Intelligence models persistent context across sessions — the ability to remember who you are, what you've worked on, and what...

• Multi-Agent Orchestration at Scale

  Multi-agent orchestration at scale is the practice of coordinating dozens of specialized AI agents into a coherent system that operates autonomously, shares context, and produces compounding output —...

• Nous Research

  Nous Research is an open-source AI lab that trains language models, builds agents and develops training infrastructure, and the creator of Hermes Agent and the Hermes model series. Nous says it...

• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic that standardizes how Artificial Intelligence models connect to external tools, data sources, and systems. Anthropic introduced...

• CLAUDE.md as Infrastructure

  CLAUDE.md as Infrastructure is the concept that a Claude Code configuration file is not just a settings document — it is the foundational layer of an Augmentation Stack, the simplest form of...

• Claude Code

  Claude Code is an agentic coding tool developed by Anthropic that operates directly in the terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser. Unlike code completion tools, Claude Code functions as an...

• MythOS Case Study: BrianBot Broadcast

  BrianBot Broadcast is a daily AI-generated podcast that synthesizes industry news through Brian Swichkow's curated worldview and voice — produced by the Brian Bot agent ecosystem on a fully synthetic...

• Hermes Glossary

  The Hermes Glossary is a collection of terms used in Hermes Agent, Nous Research's open-source self-improving autonomous agent — spanning its runtime architecture, learning loop, skills system,...

• Honcho

  Honcho is an open-source memory library from Plastic Labs for building stateful agents, used in Hermes Agent as a catalog memory provider that models the user across sessions. Plastic Labs describes...

• Pluggable Memory Provider

  Pluggable memory provider is the plugin interface through which Hermes Agent connects one external memory backend alongside its always-active built-in memory, MEMORY.md and USER.md. Each provider...

• Tinker-Atropos

  Tinker-Atropos is a Nous Research integration layer connecting the Atropos reinforcement learning environment framework to Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker training API, letting Atropos environments...