Honcho — Cross-Session User Modeling

"The agent that grows with you." Honcho builds a persistent model of who you are across every session — your expertise, communication style, recurring topics, and working preferences.

Philosophy

Unlike simple memory (saving facts), Honcho models the user as a person — updating its understanding through dialectic reasoning: observing patterns, forming hypotheses about your preferences, and refining them over time.

This is the core of what makes Hermes Agent feel like it "knows" you.

hermes-CCC Implementation

In hermes-CCC, Honcho runs as a structured user profile in the memory system. Full Honcho (honcho.dev) adds a cloud backend with dialectic reasoning.

User Profile Structure

Profile stored at: ~/.claude/projects/*/memory/user_honcho_profile.md