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How to integrate Past.dev MCP with Hermes

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Past.dev is a source-backed memory service for AI agents. It helps agents retain, trace, and safely manage durable context.

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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 Past.dev 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 Past.dev 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 Past.dev

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new Past.dev 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 Past.dev or request any Past.dev-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Past.dev MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Past.dev MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Past.dev account. It provides structured and secure access to durable, source-backed memory, identities, audiences, usage data, diagnostics, and request history, so your agent can store and recall memories, manage identity access, diagnose ingestion, and inspect or clean up memory on your behalf.

  • Durable memory ingestion and recall: Have your agent store timestamped information, ingest memory in batches, and recall ranked, source-backed context for an identity.
  • Identity and audience management: Let the agent create, update, list, or remove identities and organize access with fixed or trait-based audiences.
  • Ingestion diagnostics: Direct your agent to estimate ingestion costs, check processing status, explain partial or failed ingestions, and retry eligible work.
  • Usage and activity monitoring: Instruct your agent to review credit usage, inspect API request history, and analyze request counts over selected time periods.
  • Memory lineage and cleanup: Have your agent trace how memories and source information relate over time, inspect timeline details, and permanently delete selected memory data when needed.

Way Forward

With Past.dev 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 Past.dev action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Replace Identities in Bulk

Atomically create or replace complete trait sets for up to 1,000 identities; omitted traits replace the identity with no traits.

Delete Audience

DESTRUCTIVE ACCESS CHANGE: Permanently delete an audience.

Delete Identity

DESTRUCTIVE: Permanently delete an identity directory record and remove it from every audience.

Permanently Delete Ingestion Memory

DESTRUCTIVE: Permanently delete every data point accepted by one ingestion and memory depending only on those points.

Delete Memory Data Point

DESTRUCTIVE: Permanently delete one data point by its caller-owned source id and remove memory derived from it.

Delete Memory Data Points

DESTRUCTIVE: Permanently and atomically delete up to 1,000 data points by caller-owned source id and remove memory derived from them.

Estimate Ingestion

Cut files into data points, plan batches, and estimate credits without storing data or spending credits.

Explain Ingestion

Diagnose how far one send progressed, including per-item searchability, memory counts, failure details, and the recommended next step.

Find Trace Roots

Find memory and source nodes for lineage or timeline inspection, returning independent memory and source cursors.

Get Audience

Read one fixed, rule, or default audience with its definition and current membership and memory counts.

Get Identity

Return one identity's traits, origin, timestamps, and current audience memberships.

Get Ingestion Status

Poll one ingestion for processing, completion, failure, and project readiness without consuming metered request quota.

Get API Request

Read one API call and its retained allowlisted headers and request/response payload; bearer credentials are never returned.

Get Request Histogram

Count accepted, failed-later, and rejected API calls in provider-selected time buckets using request-log filters.

Get Trace Lineage

Read what a memory or source was built from and what was built on it, including graph edges and hidden-node count.

Get Trace Node

Read one memory or source node with revision, validity, replacement, request, content, and graph counts.

Get Trace Timeline

Read rooted source and memory work, ingestions, recalls, and supersessions on a clock for a window of at most 31 days.

Get Usage

Return the current UTC month's credit balance, metering state, and project ingestion, recall, and cap usage.

Ingest Memory

Ingest one timestamped data point into durable memory, optionally associating it with an identity and audience; reusing an id replaces the prior revision when stored fields change.

Ingest Memory Batch

Atomically ingest 1 to 1,000 ordered memory data points in one request, avoiding fragile per-item agent loops.

List Audiences

List every audience in the connected project, including the default project audience and current membership and memory counts.

List Identities

List project identities newest first, optionally filtering by one trait, and return a cursor for the next page.

List API Requests

List the connected project's API calls newest first, with filters and a cursor for the next page.

Recall Memory

Return ranked, source-backed memory visible to an identity for a query, with optional time range, sort order, and evidence budget controls.

Recompute Audience

Recompute an audience's membership from its definition and apply the refreshed access set to recall immediately.

Create or Replace Audience

Create or completely replace a fixed-list or trait-rule audience and its access definition.

Replace Identity

Create an identity or replace its complete trait set; omitted or empty traits remove all existing traits.

Retry Ingestion

Retry a stopped or failed ingestion under its existing id without spending additional credits; completed ingestions are rejected.

Update Identity Traits

Merge selected identity traits while preserving unspecified keys; set a trait value to null to remove that key.

FRAMEWORKS

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Past.dev MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Past.dev tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Past.dev 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 Past.dev tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Past.dev 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 Past.dev data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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