Environment Facts MEMORY.md
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A ~/.hermes/memories/MEMORY.md organized around hard-won lessons — environment facts, project conventions, and traps, each with its "why".
#starter#memory#lessons
MEMORY.md
MEMORY.md
Loaded at session start. Facts and lessons that keep sessions from re-learning things the hard way. Each entry carries its why — a rule without a reason gets deleted by a future session that does not know better.
Environment
- Dev machine is behind a corporate proxy;
HTTPS_PROXYis set in the shell profile. Tools that ignore env proxies (some Docker builds) need the explicit flag. (Lost an hour to this on 2026-06-30.) - Node is managed by
mise, not system packages.sudo npmis always wrong here.
Project conventions (cross-project)
- Work in feature branches even for one-line fixes — two repos here
auto-deploy
main. - Migrations are applied by the person who wrote them, same session,
then verified with a
SELECT. "Migration attached, please run" caused a prod drift incident in May.
Lessons
- (2026-07-02) The staging API rate-limits per IP, not per key. Batch test runs sequentially or they poison each other's results.
- (2026-07-11) User's "quick look" means read-only: no fixes, report findings first. Applying a fix during a "quick look" was unwelcome.
Maintenance
When a line stops being true, delete it in the same session that noticed — a wrong memory is worse than no memory.