hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Feature Request: Support multiple simultaneous memory providers

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Root Cause

The current single-provider limitation forces users to choose between complementary capabilities. For users running fully local setups (OpenViking + Holographic = zero additional infra), this is an unnecessary constraint — both can and should coexist.

Code Example

memory:
  memory_enabled: true
  providers:
    openviking:
      enabled: true
    holographic:
      enabled: true
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Feature Request: Support multiple simultaneous memory providers

Problem

Hermes currently only supports one external memory provider at a time (memory.provider in config.yaml). Different providers excel at different things:

ProviderStrengthWeakness
OpenVikingSession archival, semantic search, resource ingestionNo structured fact storage, no trust scoring
Holographic (fact_store)Structured facts with categories/tags/entities, trust scoring, compositional reasoning, zero API costNo session search, no semantic search, manual bootstrap

They complement each other perfectly, but you can only pick one.

Real-world example

A user (physics teacher, macOS) has:

  • Structured facts: PDF page offsets, TTS engine specs, tool paths — perfect for fact_store's reason(entities=['PDF', 'physics']) queries
  • Session history: past conversations, project progress — perfect for viking_search(mode='fast') semantic recall

Switching to OpenViking kills fact_store access. Switching to Holographic kills session search. Neither is ideal.

Proposed solution

Allow multiple memory providers to coexist:

memory:
  memory_enabled: true
  providers:
    openviking:
      enabled: true
    holographic:
      enabled: true

Or at minimum, allow fact_store to always be available alongside any external provider, given it's pure local SQLite with zero runtime overhead.

Why this matters

The current single-provider limitation forces users to choose between complementary capabilities. For users running fully local setups (OpenViking + Holographic = zero additional infra), this is an unnecessary constraint — both can and should coexist.

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