Conversation History

Domain: Development & Contributing

Motivation

The full message history of a session. Stored in state.db. Used for context, compression, and session resume.

Concrete Example

Conversation: [user: Build a web app, assistant: Here is the plan…, user: Use React, assistant: Updated plan…]. All messages stored. On resume, the full history is loaded.

Analogy

A meeting minutes book - every meeting is recorded. You can look back at any meeting. Conversation history is the minutes book for Hermes sessions.