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This guy literally tested Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw side by side. Hermes won. And it wasn't close. Here's what made the difference: → Hermes built the website faster → Hermes gave live updates the whole time. OpenClaw went silent. → Hermes designed a cleaner page using the exact same...

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HERMES AGENT IS PULLING AHEAD OF OPENCLAW. 8 FEATURES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SWITCH. 1. HERMES GETS SMARTER EVERY RUN. Hermes updates its own skills after every completed task. what worked gets saved. what failed gets refined. the Curator runs in the background every 7 days. prunes unused skills. consolidates duplicates. archives stale procedures to .archive/ (recoverable). your skill library stays clean without manual work. agents with 20+ self-created skills finish similar tasks ~40% faster. 2. CHECKPOINTS BEFORE EVERY FILE CHANGE. before Hermes touches your files, it snapshots the working directory with a shadow git store. if anything breaks: /rollback # restore last checkpoint /rollback 3 # go back 3 checkpoints config: → max 20 snapshots per project → max 10MB per file, 500MB total store → auto-prune after 7 days → opt-in: set checkpoints.enabled: true you can also restore a single file without affecting the rest of the directory. 3. STABLE RELEASES. Hermes ships fewer updates. the ones it ships go through 500+ PRs per release with community testing before merge. v0.16.0 had 874 commits and 542 merged PRs. the update system runs syntax validation after every pull. if anything breaks, it auto-rolls back to the last working state. 4. 27+ MESSAGING PLATFORMS. Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, SMS, Email, Teams, Matrix, and 17 more. one gateway process covers all of them. 5. PROFILE ISOLATION. separate agents with their own model, memory, skills, cron jobs, and SOUL.md. run a researcher on GPT-5.5 and a coder on Fable 5 simultaneously on the same machine. 6. KANBAN + DISPATCHER. task orchestration with 60-second dispatch cycle, zombie detection, heartbeat tracking, retry budgets. assign tasks to agents from a visual board. 7. /GOAL WITH JUDGE MODEL. persistent objectives across turns. a judge evaluates after each turn: done or continue. runs for hours autonomously. 8. BUILT-IN MIGRATION FROM OPENCLAW. hermes claw migrate one command moves your OpenClaw setup to Hermes. supports --dry-run to preview before changing anything. also migrates legacy Clawdbot and Moldbot setups. OpenClaw still has the bigger ecosystem and more community integrations. both tools are open source. both are actively developed. this is about which architecture compounds better over months of use. full Hermes SOUL . MD guide 👇

YanXbt

19,573 views • 1 month ago

how to set up hermes agent step by step. built-in memory, 40+ tools, works on your phone, and what to think of hermes vs openclaw: 1. hermes is a personal AI agent that runs in your terminal. think of it like open claw but with built-in memory, 40+ tools out of the box, and 90% cheaper token costs. you install it with one command. 2. the 3 problems with open claw that hermes solves: no memory (you keep repeating yourself), constant gateway restarts, and zero visibility into what you're spending on tokens. 3. hermes remembers everything. every completed task gets saved to memory. it searches through past logs to find solutions. over time it literally gets smarter at your specific workflows. 4. connect it to open router. you see exact costs per model per task. free models rotate weekly. one founder went from $130 every five days on open claw to $10 on hermes. same output. 5. it comes preloaded with skills. apple notes, imessage, find my, browser, web search, image generation, cron jobs. no hunting for plugins. 6. connect it to obsidian so it reads your entire vault. connect it to gstack for your dev environment. create custom skills for your specific workflows. 7. the biggest money saver: have it write code once for recurring tasks. then it runs without burning tokens every time. stop paying an LLM to do the same scrape or report daily. 8. run it on android via telegram. name your agents. talk to them like coworkers. in this episode imran shows you how to set this up. 9. you can run it bare metal, in docker, or serverless on modal. pick your risk level. i begged imran to come on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 and walk through the full installation live. he made it impossibly clear. if you've heard of Hermes Agent and want the clearest explanation of how to get set up like a pro let me know what you want me to cover on the next ep this is the best personal agent setup video on the internet right now. watch

GREG ISENBERG

618,145 views • 3 months ago

HERMES AGENT VS OPENCLAW. a local ai onboarding flow test. a 3.9gb bonsai served on localhost, both agents upstream and latest, i point each one at the endpoint and watch which one even finds it. > hermes opens a provider menu, thirty plus options, local servers sitting right there next to the cloud ones, i hand it 127.0.0.1:8899, it verifies the endpoint, one model visible, auto-detects the model by name, bonsai-27b-q1_0, reads the context length straight off the server, saves it, and starts reasoning and firing real tool calls on my local model. no key. no friction. > openclaw has no menu. it goes hunting for a codex login, an openai key, finds none because there are none, prints no models available three times, defaults to openai/gpt-5.5, a cloud model it cannot reach, and dead ends on run auth login --provider openai. read that back. it asked me for an openai key. to run a model already running on my own machine. it never once looked at localhost. to be fair, openclaw can run local if you hand wire endpoint yourself. what it will not do is find the model already sitting on your box. hermes agent found it in one line. now the part i owe you. the auto-detect that just won, the model name read, the .gguf strip, the context length probe off the server, that is my code, it is in hermes agent main right now, authorship preserved, #2051 and #4218. the wizard fix that stops an agent from silently routing you to someone else's creds, the exact trap openclaw still falls into, mine too, #4210. i contribute to hermes agent, i told you that going in. one agent is built to talk to whatever you are running, the other is built to talk to a cloud api, so one found my model and ran it and the other asked me to log into openai. onboarding flow of both, mapped, below.

Sudo su

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The most valuable AI system you're not running yet: an AI second brain. The concept goes back to Karpathy's knowledge wiki earlier this year, and it's still one of the highest-leverage workflows in AI. Connect your Hermes agent, and it becomes 10x more powerful. Here's how to build it (from scratch): Step 1. Download Obsidian Head to obsidian.md and download the desktop app. Once downloaded, go ahead and create a new Obsidian vault. Vaults are just where notes/text are stored locally. Start dumping everything in here: - Personal goals - Meetings - AI context/preferences The more you put in, the more powerful your second-brain becomes. Step 2. Connect Hermes to your Obsidian vault If you don't have Hermes yet, download the desktop app here: [ Then, paste this prompt: "I want you to connect to my new Obsidian vault and act as my second-brain personal assistant - do everything necessary to set up that connection now." This gives Hermes direct access to everything inside your notes vault. Step 3. Let it self-evolve Every time you add a new note, Hermes will automatically ingest it. Prompt Hermes: "Every day, scan my second brain database. Every time I add a new note, use it to create reusable skills and workflows." Pro tip: Once Obsidian is connected to your agent, you can just prompt it directly to add notes/context/data. This works really well if you're prompting Hermes on the go from Telegram/mobile. Save this and build your second brain system now.

Miles Deutscher

28,703 views • 4 days ago

HERMES AGENT SHIPS WITH A BUNDLED SKILL FOR ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM WIKI PATTERN. A SELF-IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASE THAT GROWS EVERY TIME YOU FEED IT. mentioned this briefly in the overnight workflow article. here is the full breakdown. what it is: a self-improving knowledge base built as interlinked markdown files. unlike RAG (which rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. cross-references stay linked. contradictions get flagged automatically. synthesis reflects everything ingested so far. why this matters for Hermes memory: Hermes built-in memory knows YOU. it remembers your conversations, your preferences, your business context across sessions. but it doesn't know your inbox. or your meeting transcripts. or that article you saved last week. or the expert framework you want it to learn. the LLM Wiki solves that. THE DIVISION OF LABOR human curates sources and directs analysis. agent summarizes, cross-references, files, and maintains consistency. you drop in articles, transcripts, notes. Hermes indexes them, links related concepts, flags contradictions, updates affected pages. your knowledge base grows itself. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND the skill ships with Hermes. enable it. set WIKI_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env: WIKI_PATH=/Users/you/wiki defaults to ~/wiki if unset. then drop anything into it: "index this article into my wiki: [paste URL or text]" Hermes reads it, builds a source page, updates related entries, flags contradictions. THE OBSIDIAN ANGLE set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH to the same directory. now your wiki is visible in Obsidian's graph view. nodes, links, backlinks. all built by Hermes. for headless servers: install obsidian-headless. syncs vaults without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you read on your laptop. THE COMPOUND EFFECT Hermes knows you. the wiki knows your world. combine them and the agent answers questions using BOTH contexts at once. month 1: you explain things twice. month 3: the agent references the wiki on its own. answers get sharper because the knowledge base got sharper. AUTOMATIONS THAT FEED THE WIKI set cron jobs to ingest automatically: "every day at 9am, check Granola for new meetings. add any new transcripts to my wiki under meeting notes." "every morning, scan my Gmail starred items. add anything worth keeping to the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [your niche]. summarize and file." your wiki grows while you sleep. Hermes never forgets what gets indexed. THE LIMITATION TO KNOW unlike Hermes memory (which is conversational and lives across sessions), the wiki is a separate knowledge layer. Hermes won't pull from the wiki automatically unless you reference it or save it as a skill. best setup: build an LLM Wiki personality that tells Hermes to consult the wiki when answering strategy questions or domain-specific queries. full HERMES AGENT OVERNIGHT WORKFLOW👇

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