How to integrate Zep MCP with Hermes

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 Zep 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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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 Zep 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 1,000+ 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 Zep 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 Zep

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

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

5. Done!

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

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

Way Forward

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

Add Fact Triple

Tool to add a manually specified fact triple (subject-predicate-object) to the Zep knowledge graph.

Add Session Memory

Tool to add memory messages to a specified Zep session.

Add Thread Messages

Tool to add chat messages to a thread in Zep and ingest them into the user knowledge graph.

Clone Graph

Tool to clone a user or group graph with new identifiers in Zep.

Create Graph

Tool to create a new graph by adding data to Zep.

Create Group

Tool to create a new group in Zep for multi-user graph management.

Create Session

Tool to create a new session in Zep for storing conversation memory.

Create Thread

Tool to create a new thread in Zep for a specific user.

Create User

Tool to create a new user in Zep with properties like user_id, email, and metadata.

Delete Graph

Tool to delete a graph from Zep.

Delete Group

Tool to delete a group from Zep.

Delete Session Memory

Tool to delete a session and its memory from Zep.

Delete Thread

Tool to delete a thread and its messages from Zep.

Delete User

Tool to delete a user and all associated threads and artifacts from Zep.

Get Edge by UUID

Tool to retrieve a specific edge by its UUID from the Zep knowledge graph.

Get Graph by ID

Tool to retrieve a graph by its unique identifier from Zep.

Get Group by ID

Tool to retrieve a group by ID from Zep.

Get Node Entity Edges

Tool to retrieve all entity edges for a specific node in the Zep knowledge graph.

Get Project Info

Tool to retrieve project information based on the provided API key.

Get Session by ID

Tool to retrieve a session by its unique identifier from Zep.

Get Session Memory

Tool to retrieve memory for a given session including relevant facts and entities.

Get Session Message by UUID

Tool to retrieve a specific message by UUID from a Zep session.

Get Session Messages

Tool to retrieve messages for a given session from Zep.

Get Task Status

Tool to check the status of asynchronous operations in Zep.

Get Thread Messages

Tool to retrieve conversation history for a specific thread from Zep.

Get Thread User Context

Tool to retrieve the most relevant user context from the user graph based on thread messages.

Get User by ID

Tool to retrieve a user by their user ID from Zep.

Get User Node

Tool to retrieve a user's graph node and summary from Zep.

Get User Nodes

Tool to retrieve all nodes for a specific user from their graph in Zep.

Get User Sessions

Tool to retrieve all sessions for a user from Zep.

Get User Threads

Tool to retrieve all threads for a specific user from Zep.

Graph Search

Tool to perform hybrid graph search combining semantic similarity and BM25 full-text search across the Zep knowledge graph.

List Graphs

Tool to retrieve all graphs from Zep with pagination support.

List Groups Ordered

Tool to retrieve all groups from Zep with pagination support.

List Sessions Ordered

Tool to retrieve all sessions from Zep with pagination and ordering support.

List Threads

Tool to retrieve all threads from Zep with pagination support.

List Users Ordered

Tool to retrieve all users from Zep with pagination support.

List All Threads

Tool to list all threads with pagination and ordering support.

Update Graph

Tool to update graph information in Zep including name and description.

Update Group

Tool to update group information in Zep including name, description, and fact rating instructions.

Update Message

Tool to update a message in a Zep thread.

Update Session Metadata

Tool to update session metadata in Zep.

Update User

Tool to update an existing user's information in Zep including email, metadata, and ontology settings.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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