Maintained by Nous Research. This is the byterover memory provider that used to ship inside Hermes Agent under plugins/memory/byterover/; it now installs from the Hermes plugin catalog. Existing memory.provider: byterover setups keep their config and data. See HANDOFF.md.

ByteRover Memory Provider

Persistent memory via the brv CLI — hierarchical knowledge tree with tiered retrieval (fuzzy text → LLM-driven search).

Requirements

Install the ByteRover CLI:

curl -fsSL https://byterover.dev/install.sh | sh
# or
npm install -g byterover-cli

Setup

hermes memory setup    # select "byterover"

Or manually:

hermes config set memory.provider byterover
# Optional cloud sync:
echo "BRV_API_KEY=your-key" >> ~/.hermes/.env

Config

Env Var	Required	Description
BRV_API_KEY	No	Cloud sync key (optional, local-first by default)

Working directory: $HERMES_HOME/byterover/ (profile-scoped).

Tools

Tool	Description
brv_query	Search the knowledge tree
brv_curate	Store facts, decisions, patterns
brv_status	CLI version, tree stats, sync state