diff --git a/ai/compose.yml b/ai/compose.yml
index f699af1..971caf4 100644
--- a/ai/compose.yml
+++ b/ai/compose.yml
@@ -185,6 +185,94 @@ services:
 
       - "traefik.http.services.paperclip.loadbalancer.server.port=3100"
 
+  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # Honcho — Memory infrastructure for stateful AI agents
+  # Self-hosted memory server with pgvector for embedding storage.
+  # Defaults to Ollama for embeddings; configure LLM provider for full deriver
+  # and summarization support.
+  #
+  # API port: 8000
+  # Web:       https://honcho.lazyworkhorse.net
+  # Docs:      https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
+  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  honcho-db:
+    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg17-trixie
+    container_name: honcho-db
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_DB: honcho
+      POSTGRES_USER: honcho
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD:?HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD must be set}
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U honcho -d honcho"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 10
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Honcho/pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+      - ./honcho/init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+
+  honcho:
+    build:
+      context: ./honcho
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    container_name: honcho
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:8000:8000"
+    depends_on:
+      honcho-db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    environment:
+      DB_CONNECTION_URI: postgresql+psycopg://honcho:${HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD:?HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD must be set}@honcho-db:5432/honcho
+      LOG_LEVEL: INFO
+      LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY:-ollama}
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Honcho/config.toml:/app/config.toml
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+      - ai_net
+    labels:
+      - "traefik.enable=true"
+      - "traefik.docker.network=ai_net"
+
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.rule=Host(`honcho.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.entrypoints=web"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.middlewares=redirect-to-https"
+
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.rule=Host(`honcho.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.entrypoints=websecure"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.tls=true"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.tls.certresolver=njalla"
+
+      - "traefik.http.services.honcho.loadbalancer.server.port=8000"
+
+  holographic-memory:
+    build:
+      context: ./holographic-memory
+    image: holographic-memory:latest
+    container_name: holographic-memory
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:8100:8100"
+    environment:
+      - HOLOGRAPHIC_DB_PATH=/data/holographic/memory_store.db
+      - HOLOGRAPHIC_PORT=8100
+      - HOLOGRAPHIC_DEFAULT_TRUST=0.5
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/HolographicMemory:/data/holographic
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "python3", "-c", "import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8100/health')"]
+      interval: 30s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 10s
+
 networks:
   ai_net:
     external: true
diff --git a/ai/honcho/Dockerfile b/ai/honcho/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b799ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ai/honcho/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Honcho — Memory infrastructure for stateful AI agents
+# Builds the Honcho FastAPI server from the official GitHub repository.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   docker compose build honcho
+#   docker compose up honcho
+#
+# Reference: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Stage 1 — clone source & install dependencies
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+FROM python:3.13-slim-bookworm AS builder
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9.24 /uv /bin/uv
+
+WORKDIR /src
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho.git .
+
+ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1
+ENV UV_LINK_MODE=copy
+
+# Install project dependencies (frozen from lockfile, no dev)
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv sync --frozen --no-install-project --no-group dev
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Stage 2 — runtime image
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+FROM python:3.13-slim-bookworm AS runtime
+
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9.24 /uv /bin/uv
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1
+ENV UV_LINK_MODE=copy
+ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:$PATH"
+ENV HOME=/app
+ENV UV_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/uv-cache
+
+# Copy the dependency layer from the builder
+COPY --from=builder /src/uv.lock /src/pyproject.toml /app/
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv sync --frozen --no-group dev
+
+# Copy application source and config
+COPY --from=builder /src/src/ /app/src/
+COPY --from=builder /src/migrations/ /app/migrations/
+COPY --from=builder /src/scripts/ /app/scripts/
+COPY --from=builder /src/docker/ /app/docker/
+COPY --from=builder /src/alembic.ini /app/alembic.ini
+
+# Create non-root user
+RUN addgroup --system app && \
+    adduser --system --ingroup app app && \
+    mkdir -p /tmp/uv-cache && \
+    chown -R app:app /app /tmp/uv-cache
+
+USER app
+EXPOSE 8000
+
+# The entrypoint.sh script runs database migrations then starts the FastAPI server
+ENTRYPOINT ["sh", "docker/entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/ai/honcho/init.sql b/ai/honcho/init.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0aa0fc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ai/honcho/init.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;
diff --git a/build/honcho/config.toml b/build/honcho/config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4915eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/honcho/config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# Honcho Configuration
+# Pre-configured for self-hosted deployment with Ollama embeddings.
+# Mount this file at /app/config.toml in the Honcho container.
+#
+# Environment variables override these values at runtime
+# (e.g. DB_CONNECTION_URI, DERIVER_*).
+
+[app]
+LOG_LEVEL = "INFO"
+NAMESPACE = "honcho"
+SESSION_OBSERVERS_LIMIT = 10
+GET_CONTEXT_MAX_TOKENS = 16384
+EMBED_MESSAGES = true
+
+[db]
+# Connection URI is set via environment variable DB_CONNECTION_URI
+SCHEMA = "public"
+POOL_SIZE = 10
+MAX_OVERFLOW = 20
+POOL_TIMEOUT = 30
+POOL_RECYCLE = 300
+POOL_PRE_PING = true
+POOL_USE_LIFO = true
+SQL_DEBUG = false
+
+[auth]
+USE_AUTH = false
+
+[llm]
+DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 4096
+
+[embedding]
+VECTOR_DIMENSIONS = 768
+MAX_INPUT_TOKENS = 8192
+MAX_TOKENS_PER_REQUEST = 2048
+
+[embedding.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "nomic-embed-text:latest"
+
+[embedding.model_config.overrides]
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+# Ollama does not require an API key; env var must be set to non-empty string
+api_key_env = "LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY"
+
+[deriver]
+ENABLED = false
+WORKERS = 1
+POLLING_SLEEP_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 1.0
+STALE_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINUTES = 5
+DEDUPLICATE = true
+LOG_OBSERVATIONS = false
+
+[deriver.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "qwen3.6:27b-q4_K_M"
+
+[deriver.model_config.overrides]
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+api_key_env = "LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY"
+
+[summary]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[summary.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "qwen3.6:27b-q4_K_M"
+
+[summary.model_config.overrides]
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+api_key_env = "LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY"
+
+[dream]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[dialectic]
+MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 4096
+MAX_INPUT_TOKENS = 16384
+
+[cache]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[vector_store]
+TYPE = "pgvector"
+
+[metrics]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[telemetry]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[sentry]
+ENABLED = false
diff --git a/env/.env.example.honcho b/env/.env.example.honcho
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3dc59bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/env/.env.example.honcho
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Honcho Environment Variables
+# Copy this file to your .env (at the compose root or docker-compose working directory)
+# and fill in the secrets.
+#
+#   cp env/.env.example.honcho .env
+#
+# Then reference it from compose.yml:
+#   env_file:
+#     - path: .env
+#       required: true
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Database
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# PostgreSQL connection string for Honcho.
+# The password must match HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD below.
+HONCHO_DB_PASSWORD=change_me_to_a_strong_random_password
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# LLM Provider
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Ollama does not require a real API key, but the env var must be set to a
+# non-empty string for the OpenAI-compatible client to connect.
+LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY=ollama
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Honcho Server
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Honcho will pick up DB_CONNECTION_URI from the compose environment.
+# You can override additional settings here if needed.
+# LOG_LEVEL=INFO