hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix 🌙 Plugin Proposal: Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation

🌙 Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation (Plugin)

Summary

Proposing a new standalone plugin for automatic background memory consolidation, inspired by biological sleep cycles and OpenClaw's Dreaming process.

This is a standalone plugin repo: https://github.com/Minamaged18/hermes-dreaming-plugin

Motivation

Hermes already has memory nudges, session search, and FTS5 indexing — but memory consolidation is manual and ad-hoc. The agent has no built-in way to:

• Automatically review recent conversations during idle time
• Score and promote important memories to MEMORY.md
• Reflect on patterns and themes across sessions
• Maintain a human-readable Dream Diary of insights

Design

A 3-phase consolidation cycle via cron:

Key behaviors:

• Opt-in, disabled by default
• Respects user activity — skips if user was active within quiet_minutes
• Configurable schedule — cron expression, default 0 3 * * *
• Dream Diary — human-readable log in DREAMS.md
• CLI: hermes dream run, hermes dream status, hermes dream diary

Implementation Status

✅ Complete working implementation at https://github.com/Minamaged18/hermes-dreaming-plugin

• 18 tests, all passing
• No external dependencies (pure Python + Hermes internals)
• Follows CONTRIBUTING.md: standalone plugin, not built-in

Previous Attempt

PR #25690 was closed because it was submitted as a built-in plugin. This is the corrected standalone version per maintainer feedback.

Open Questions

1. Should this be listed in the Skills Hub / optional-skills?
2. Any feedback on the scoring weights or thresholds?
3. Should the REM phase use an LLM call for richer reflections in v2?

Would love to hear if this aligns with the Hermes vision. Happy to iterate on the design.