Meet the
two agents you can ship today.
Both are production-ready. Both deploy with the same one-click flow. The difference is temperament — pick the one that fits your job.
An agent that
learns the longer you run it.
Built by Nous Research — the lab behind Hermes, Nomos, and Psyche. Hermes curates its own memory, writes its own skills, and shows up on 20+ platforms from one gateway.
Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges, autonomous skill creation, self-improvement during use, FTS5 cross-session recall.
6 terminal backends. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your env hibernates when idle and costs almost nothing.
CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Email, SMS, Teams, Google Chat, and 10+ more.
Spawn isolated subagents for parallel work. Programmatic tool calling collapses pipelines into one inference call.
Built-in cron with delivery to any platform — daily briefs, weekly recaps, hourly checks.
Connect to any MCP server for extended tool capabilities. Full web control: search, extract, browse, vision, TTS.
One agent.
Every inbox.
OpenClaw vs Hermes
| OpenClaw | Hermes | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Builders, devs, custom workflows | Power users, creators, long-running assistants |
| Learning style | Static — you author the skills | Self-improving — curates memory, writes skills |
| Channels | 12 platforms | 20+ platforms |
| Subagents | Manual delegation | Auto-spawned isolated subagents |
| Scheduling | Via cron skill | Built-in cron with platform delivery |
| Footprint | ~1 GB RAM | ~2 GB RAM |
| Best paired with | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Hermes 4 (Nous Portal) |