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How to integrate Honcho MCP with Hermes

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Honcho is a memory, context, and theory-of-mind infrastructure for stateful AI agents. It provides durable agent memory and contextual tooling to keep conversations coherent.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Honcho account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Honcho with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Honcho

Ask your agent to connect to Honcho, or simply request any Honcho-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Honcho connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Honcho or request any Honcho-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Honcho MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Honcho MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Honcho account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Honcho operations on your behalf.

Way Forward

With Honcho connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Honcho action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Chat With Peer

Run usage-bearing agentic search and reasoning over a peer's learned representation to answer a question.

Create Conclusions

Store a batch of 1-100 explicit conclusions about peers, optionally tied to sessions.

Create Messages

Add a batch of 1-100 attributed messages to a Honcho session.

Delete Session

Permanently delete one known session and its session-scoped data.

Get Message

Return one message by its exact ID within a session.

Get or Create Peer

Return a peer by ID within a workspace, creating it with the supplied metadata and configuration when absent.

Get or Create Session

Return a session by ID, or create it with initial peers, metadata, and configuration when absent.

Get or Create Workspace

Return a workspace by ID, or create it with metadata and configuration when absent.

Get Peer Representation

Return a curated subset of conclusions representing a peer.

List Conclusions

Return one page of stored conclusions in a workspace; use Search Conclusions for semantic retrieval.

List Messages

Return one page of messages in a session; use Get Message for exact-ID retrieval.

List Peers

Return one page of peers in a workspace.

List Sessions

Return one page of sessions in a workspace.

List Workspaces

Return one page of Honcho workspaces visible to the connected admin key.

Search Conclusions

Semantically search stored conclusions in a workspace.

Search Messages

Semantically search messages at workspace, peer, or session scope.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Honcho MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Honcho tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Honcho and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Honcho tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Honcho scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Honcho data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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