Memos by Brian Swichkow

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...
FTS5 Session Search
FTS5 Session Search is a feature of Hermes Agent that gives the agent a built-in sessionsearch tool for full-text search across all past conversations, using SQLite's FTS5 engine over the session...
Hermes Persistent Memory
Hermes Persistent Memory is a feature of Hermes Agent that keeps bounded, agent-curated memory across sessions in two files: MEMORY.md for the agent's own notes and USER.md for the user's profile....
Pluggable Context Engine
A pluggable context engine in Hermes Agent is a plugin that replaces the built-in ContextCompressor, taking over how the agent tracks token usage and compacts conversation context as it nears the...
Nous Model Family
Nous Model Family is the set of language models released by Nous Research, led by the Hermes series and joined by the Nomos 1 mathematics model and the NousCoder-14B programming model. Hermes 3,...
Hermes Orchestrator
The Hermes Orchestrator is the subagent role in Hermes Agent that keeps the delegation tool, letting a child agent spawn and coordinate its own workers when nested delegation is enabled. Hermes...
Personal Knowledge Management
Personal Knowledge Management, or PKM, is the process of creating, chronicling, categorizing, utilizing, and refining personal knowledge. In Tiago Forte's words, a Second Brain is "an external,...
Resources (PARA Method)
Resources are the third of four top-level categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, covering a range of topics a person is interested in and learning about. Forte Labs' introduction to PARA gives...
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American electrical engineer and science administrator who directed U.S. wartime research and wrote the 1945 essay "As We May Think," which described the Memex. The...
Zettelkasten Linking Rules
Zettelkasten Linking Rules are the practices the Zettelkasten Method's own guide gives for connecting notes: each note gets a unique address, each new note is related to an existing one, and each...
Archives (PARA Method)
Archives are the fourth of four top-level categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, holding anything from the other three categories that is no longer active but may be worth saving for future...
Anytype
Anytype is a personal knowledge base made by Any, which its official repository describes as a Swiss association. The repository's README calls Anytype a local-first, peer-to-peer and end-to-end...
Capacities
Capacities is a note-taking and personal knowledge management app built around objects, made by an independent, user-funded European software company. Its homepage says Capacities "turns your ideas...
Areas (PARA Method)
Areas are the second of four categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, defined by Forte Labs as important parts of work and life that require ongoing attention. Forte's work examples are marketing,...
Projects (PARA Method)
Projects are the first of four categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, defined by Forte Labs as short-term efforts in work or personal life taken on with a certain goal in mind. Forte's examples...