Hermes Just Killed OpenClaw (Here's Why) (opens in new tab)

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge. I do not think OpenClaw is dead. That title is deliberately dramatic because the shift is dramatic. OpenClaw did something important: it made a lot of developers believe that a personal AI assistant could be more than a chat box. It could sit on your machine, connect to your messages, call tools, browse, run commands, and actually move work forward. But Hermes Agent changes the question. OpenClaw asks: What if I could run a personal AI assi...