how do tools like hermes do this? does it just review sessions and rewrite markdown files?
also haven't read too deep into the deepseek agent harness but the math in there was really cool. it sounded promising, at least.
> does it just review sessions and rewrite markdown files
Yes, same with openclaw etc. Some might have plugins to integrate with graph or vector databases besides only markdown files.
There's a cool research project https://github.com/exoharness/exo that is designed specifically as a self-modifying harness, so architecturally it separates things in a way that makes it a lot harder for the agent to break itself when modifying itself. It looks pretty neat. Saw the author do an interview on a podcast explaining it.