This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge, under the Write About Hermes Agent prompt.
I've spent the last week testing AI memory failure modes in a public evaluation harness. That work changed how I read agent memory systems.
This is a writing submission, not a build submission. I did not build a Hermes Agent project for this challenge. I am writing from the perspective of someone testing how memory failures show up once agents can act.
So when I look at Hermes Agent, the question I care about is not only:
Can the agent remember useful things?
