AIVM Brain connects to Hermes Agent as an MCP server, giving it governed recall over your full knowledge: projects, decisions, documents, history. Hermes ships a built-in MCP client, so the setup is one config entry. The brain works alongside Hermes's own memory files; it is independent infrastructure you own, not a Hermes component.
How do you connect Hermes Agent?
Connect Hermes Agent using the current setup instructions inside your AIVM Brain workspace. Public access currently starts with the waitlist.
Get workspace access. Join the waitlist with your work email and confirm your email. If you already have access, log in to your workspace.
Follow the in-app setup for Hermes Agent. Use the current connection instructions provided in your workspace for Hermes Agent. Follow the access scope assigned to your agent.
Check access and retrieval. Ask Hermes Agent a question about an approved source and check its citation. Also test a restricted source to confirm that the agent cannot retrieve content outside its permissions.
Bounded files are a feature. They are also a ceiling.
Hermes Agent's built-in memory is deliberately small: as of mid-2026 it curates MEMORY.md and USER.md, bounded files injected into the system prompt at session start. That design keeps every session cheap and predictable, and for who-you-are context it works. But a few thousand characters cannot hold a year of decisions, a team's documents, or the reasoning behind last quarter's architecture change.
The brain is the deep store on the other side of that ceiling. Hermes keeps its quick notes; when a task needs the full picture, it queries the brain over MCP and pulls exactly the knowledge that clears its permissions. Small working memory, large governed recall. Same pattern your own head uses.
An always-on agent needs an accountable memory
Hermes is built to run continuously, respond on your channels, schedule its own work, and improve itself with skills. An agent with that much autonomy reading and writing your knowledge is exactly where governance stops being paperwork. With the brain, every recall and every capture Hermes makes is permission-checked and written to a tamper-evident, content-blind ledger. If Hermes did something with your data at 3am, you can see precisely what it touched.