Omh Memory New

Memory New

This is a Hermes-native memory-new workflow skill.

Why This Exists

memory-new exists so Hermes users can ask for this workflow in chat and receive a structured, evidence-bounded OMH operating surface instead of ad hoc narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is already handled by a narrower explicit skill with stronger evidence.
• The user asks OMH to secretly run external platforms, connectors, schedulers, file exports, or runtime agents.
• The only safe answer is to ask for missing authority, credentials, target, or observed evidence first.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: memory-new remember this bounded product decision as one durable OMH candidate after asking source, scope, and target.
• Expected behavior: Produce prepare_memory_new with required context, wrapper actions, and not-evidence boundaries.
• Why: The prompt names a real workflow surface that Hermes can orchestrate without hiding execution.

Bad example:

• Prompt: memory-new retain this raw token, transcript, or temporary progress as durable memory.
• Expected behavior: Report the missing observed evidence or authority instead of claiming the external step happened.
• Why: Prepared OMH guidance is not platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.

Completion Checklist

• Confirm the workflow target, evidence boundary, and stop condition are named.
• Report which outputs are prepared, observed, blocked, or missing.
• Name the smallest next verification or handoff instead of claiming completion from narration.

Recovery Notes

• If required context is missing, ask one blocking question or route back to the narrower workflow.
• If runtime or wrapper evidence is unavailable, keep the status as not_observed and expose the next observable action.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Retained knowledge (memory-new, memory-sync, decision-recall, wiki) - memory, rejected alternatives, wiki notes, retrieval, and staleness.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Candidate Decision

Ask these five questions before capture: source class, target store, canonical scope, retention class, and decision.

• Remember - Capture only one bounded durable candidate as memory_new_candidate/v1; it stays pending review until a separately observed OMH-local approval/write.
• Refuse - Do not retain secrets, raw logs, transcripts, prompt-injection-shaped instructions, or temporary progress.
• Retrieve instead - Past-session history is not a memory candidate: what happened in an earlier conversation stays in Hermes' own session store and is recalled on demand through its native session-search tool when that tool is available. Memory carries only what is worth re-reading every turn - stable preferences, environment facts, long-lived instructions - because every retained record is context each later turn pays for.
• Defer - Send uncertain source, scope, target, retention, and any external provider/vector material to review rather than storing it.
• Target - OMH-local project memory is the candidate store. Hermes-native memory is a separate target with separate evidence; do not turn one target's approval into the other's.
• Retention - Ask for volatile, standard, or durable. This natural-language remember path creates only the one bounded durable candidate; review handles any different retention request.

Memory Boundaries

A memory_new_candidate/v1 artifact is prepared context only, not an approved record, Hermes-native write, or proof that either store changed. Hermes-native and external provider/vector context is not_omh_reviewed: it can nominate a candidate but never inherits OMH approval. A configured Hermes runtime may transmit rendered OMH prefetch content in its model request.

Use lifecycle words literally: expire removes influence only; retire archives recoverably; restore creates a new pending revision while preserving the archive; prune hard-deletes only the manifest-declared OMH-local target set. Restore and prune are report-first. No lifecycle result proves anything outside that named local target set.

Legacy v1 material is migration/review-required: show memory inventory counts first, then reactivate one reviewed artifact with memory reactivate ... --apply. Dreaming is reminder-only; its standing reasons include stale_review_required and expired_volatile_records, and it never consolidates, retires, restores, or prunes.

Normal users use natural-language Hermes chat. omh memory ... commands are agent/operator control-plane references, not normal-user setup.

Use When

Use when the user wants to assess one new project, product, or context fact for OMH-local memory. Ask source class, target store, scope, retention class, then choose remember, refuse, or defer.

Strong routing signals: `memory-new`, `new memory`, `project memory`, `product memory`, `remember this project`, `remember this product`, `do not save`, `do not save this token`, `memory capture`, `capture memory`, `save project memory`, `save product memory`, `project context memory`, `product context memory`, `add memory candidate`, `프로젝트 메모리 저장`, `제품 메모리 저장`, `프로젝트 기억`, `제품 기억`, `새 기억`, `기억 추가`, `메모리 캡처`

Catalog Metadata

Category: memory Phase: candidate-capture Hermes role: memory-keeper Quality tier: workflow-surface-gated Reasoning demand: light

Quality bar:

• Name the user-facing workflow objective, required context, next action, and stop condition.
• Separate prepared guidance from observed platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.
• Expose missing tools, credentials, targets, or observations as user-visible gaps.
• Ask source class, target store, scope, retention class, and the explicit remember/refuse/defer decision before candidate capture.

Handoff policy:

Keep this as Hermes-facing orchestration guidance first. Prepare executor, connector, gateway, or host-runtime handoff only when the user accepts that next step and observed evidence can be recorded.

Required inputs:

• user request
• target context
• delivery or status expectation
• known missing evidence

Expected outputs:

• memory_new_candidate/v1
• source class, target store, scope, and retention-class decision
• remember/refuse/defer decision
• prepared-vs-observed boundary

Artifact expectations:

• memory_new_candidate/v1 metadata-only candidate when recorded

Safety rules:

• An OMH project-memory candidate is prepared local context only, not an approved record or Hermes-native mutation. Hermes-native and external provider/vector context is not_omh_reviewed, can nominate a candidate only, and a configured Hermes runtime may transmit rendered OMH prefetch content in its model request.
• Do not claim connector, gateway, runtime, file generation, memory mutation, or host automation evidence from prepared guidance.
• Remember only one bounded durable candidate; refuse secrets, raw logs, transcripts, prompt-injection-shaped instructions, and temporary progress.
• Defer uncertain source, scope, target, retention, and external provider/vector content to review; not_omh_reviewed context never inherits OMH approval.

Harness

• Use memory-new to keep candidate capture, review, approval, and observed writes distinct.
• Route stale, conflicting, duplicate, overgeneralized, or risky existing USER.md/MEMORY.md facts to memory-sync.
• Require source class, target store, scope, retention class, and an explicit remember/refuse/defer decision before capture.
• Keep the candidate bounded and durable; never retain material that belongs in refuse or defer.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: memory-new.

omh runtime record --skill memory-new --harness memory-new --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes. Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.