Prompt: no, forget the hermes stoat adapter for now. if it natively supports it great, if not, we'll stick to signal.

[User] Link, i want you to deep research this video. use any skills you need, get the transcript, study what it discusses, the systems the llms, the ais, the methods, the tools, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBgBNzb2pY then tell me what we need to do, to build it ourselves on the mac mini that you are hosted on.

[Assistant]
Brandon wants me to deep research a YouTube video, get the transcript, study what it discusses, and then tell him what we need to do to build it on the Mac mini. Let me start by fetching the video page to understand what it's about, then get the transcript.

exec

which yt-dlp || brew list yt-dlp 2>/dev/null

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Hermes might be the most powerful AI
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agent on the planet right now. It's an
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AI personal assistant that runs 24/7,
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but it has one huge limitation. And in
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this video, I'll show my exact Claude
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system that solves this limitation by
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taking the best systems from Hermes,
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Open Claw, and any AI system to turn you
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into a productivity superpower with an
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agent that runs 24/7 so you can stop
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wasting time and make more money. And if
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you don't know who I am, my name is Jack
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Roberts. I built and sold my last tech
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startup with over 60,000 customers and I
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build my own AI businesses and I share
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with you the exact stuff that works. So
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if you haven't already, grab that coffee
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and let's dive straight in. So this is
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the Hermes agent. As you can see, it's a
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very sleek, gorgeous design. And you've
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probably seen on YouTube, Hermes is
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called Open Claw. Open Claw is called
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NL. I've not seen this much killing
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since I watched Game of Thrones. It's
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super difficult and actually just
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exhausting to keep up with what's
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killing what. Which is why the system is
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so powerful because we're not basically
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relying on any one single framework. And
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you'll see why that's so important in
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this video. But the tilt of it is it's
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got 124,000 stars on GitHub. It is
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literally blown up. It's trending for
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all the right reasons. It is genuinely
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cool and probably the most powerful one
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that exists on the market right now.
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It's absolutely crushing it. Now, why is
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everybody so hyped about Hermes? We have
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to cover this before I can show you the
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system that replaces it. First of all,
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it dreams whilst you sleep. That's
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pretty cool, right? Background ga loop
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reflects on every session. It prunes
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contradictions and distills everything
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into memory. MD. That's cool. That is
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literally an AI agent that's working for
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you in the background constantly. Writes
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it own tools, its own skills. So, after
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five plus tool calls on a complex task,
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the agent also authors a skill.md
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capturing what worked. next time it just
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runs for you. So it's less if you think
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about like cognitive load from your
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perspective. You talk, it kind of
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learns, it listens and it does what you
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want to do. It actually remembers you.
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It's got a four layer memory system.
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Memory MD userd skill.md then SQLite and
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some episodic pluggable stuff there.
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Then we've got it talks on to you on
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every app. So again, one gateway 15
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services, Telegram, Discord, etc. Real
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research, not just vibes and MIT license
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model agnostic, which is very cool. And
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so every time something new comes out,
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we have to do a new repo with new
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conventions, we have to recredentialize,
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which is a word that I I quoted. I don't
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know if that exists or not. Hopefully it
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does. But basically, you're hooking up
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everything all over again. Every single
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connection, the second that a better
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framework comes out, it's so time
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consuming. Your agent doesn't know who
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you are cuz again, you lose all the
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memories from each individual app when
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progressive disclosure, so only skill
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nudge. After a complex task or five plus
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prompt asking if the procedure is worth
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saving. It decides autonomously if it's
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a one-off, it skips it, it's reusable,
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it can correct the skill, and they're
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self-improving. So skills can be edited
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when the agent finds a better approach
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or the user corrects the workflow. So
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with that in mind, let's actually create
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a skill that's going to be super useful
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for a lot of the things we do, which is
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research. We're out and about. We're
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thinking about things and I always think
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with use cases these things I like to
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use things that I would actually use,
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right? Like building graphics and stuff
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looks cool, but are we really going to
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use it all the time, right? So one
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example would be in doing some decent
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research. I always use firecraw for
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research just because if you're using
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AI, it's 80%ish cheaper and this
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actually goes ahead to the website and
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can scrape. And I always think of it as
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like you're talking to the website. So
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all you do is add the API key in your
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environmental variables in anti-gravity
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or claude and just say hey, you know,
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save this API key and it stores it for
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you in railway. And when you've done
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that, so let's go ahead and test this
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out. So I'm going to come down here and
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hit the record button. Hey there. What
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I'd like you to do for me is create a
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skill using firecrawl. So when I ask you
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to go and research something, I want you
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to use firecrawl and I want you to look
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at the top three to five credible
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resources and come back with a punchy,
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beautiful, punctuated summary of what
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you found. Now, first of all, what I'd
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like you to do is go ahead on to Product
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Hunt and find some custom reviews for
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speech dictation software and let me
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know what the three star reviews are
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saying. So, in other words, how people
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who like the product but want to be
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better. What are the things that they're
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saying? Just let me know so I can get
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some ideas to improve our product,
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right? I'm going to send that one
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straight off and then let our new system
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basically go and do that and it will use
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the same fire cool thing. And even this
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ability here to transcribe and send
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[Assistant]
Good, I have the full transcript now. Let me also search for the Hermes agent repo to understand what it is, and then I'll compile my findings for Brandon.

The video is by Jack Roberts. He's talking about:

1. **Hermes Agent** - An AI personal assistant that runs 24/7 with 124k GitHub stars
2. **His "Claude Agent 2.0" system** - A custom setup that cherry-picks the best features from Hermes, OpenClaw, and other frameworks
3. **Key concepts discussed:**
   - Self-generating skills (after 5+ tool calls, agent writes a skill.md)
   - 3-tier memory system (core memory/soul.md, conversational buffer, semantic tier via Pinecone)
   - Model agnostic (hot-swap models)
   - Multi-channel (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
   - Skills as plain markdown files with progressive disclosure
   - Firecrawl for research
   - Hosting on Railway, VPS, or Mac Mini desktop
   - Dashboard/mission control via Telegram
   - Voice messages/transcription
   - Cherry-picking features from new frameworks

4. **His recommended models:** GPT 5.5 (via ChatGPT subscription with OAuth), Claude 4.7

, DeepSeek

5. **His system architecture:**
   - Telegram bot as interface
   - Claude Code or "Anti-gravity" (Windsurf/Cursor) as the coding environment
   - Railway for hosting (always-on, not exposed to internet)
   - Firecrawl for web scraping/research
   - Skills stored as markdown files
   - Memory: Core (soul.md/user info), Conversational buffer (last N messages), Semantic (Pinecone)

Comparing this to what Brandon's already built with OpenClaw, there's significant overlap—he's got multi-channel support across Stoat, Signal, and Discord, a memory system with MEMORY.md and daily notes, markdown-based skills, and model flexibility. The main architectural differences are the specific hosting choice and the semantic layer via Pinecone versus his current hybrid search approach.

Looking at what the video introduces that Brandon might be missing or could strengthen: automatic skill generation after complex tasks rather than just manual skill creation, a dedicated reflection or "dreaming" loop that goes beyond his current heartbeat system to actively review and reconcile past sessions, and the dashboard/mission control interface for visibility into what the agent's doing.

Now let me search for what the "Hermes" agent actually is on GitHub:

Question: Hermes AI agent GitHub 124000 stars personal assistant

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[Assistant]
Let me look up what "Hermes" agent is - the video mentions it has 124k stars on GitHub. This is likely referring to the open-interpreter or similar project, or maybe it's a newer one. Let me check.

Actually, looking at the transcript again, the speaker says "Hermes is called Open Claw" and "Open Claw is called NL" - he's confused about the names. He's essentially comparing Hermes (which I think might be the "open-interpreter" project or another viral AI agent project) with OpenClaw and his own custom setup using Claude Code.

The key insight from this video is that Jack Roberts built his own "Claude Agent 2.0" system by:

- Using Claude Code (or Windsurf/Cursor) as the development environment
- Running it on Railway for always-on hosting
- Using Telegram as the interface
- Cherry-picking features from frameworks like Hermes and OpenClaw
- Adding Firecrawl for research
- Building a 3-tier memory system
- Implementing self-generating skills

Now I'm thinking about what Brandon actually needs - he already has most of this through OpenClaw, so I should focus on what's genuinely new or different in Jack's approach.

I've got the full picture. Let me put together the analysis.

message

Alright, deep-dived that video. Here's the breakdown:

**What the video IS:**
Jack Roberts ("I replaced Hermes... Claude Agent 2.0") shows his custom AI agent system that cherry-picks features from Hermes (124k-star GitHub agent) and OpenClaw, running via Telegram + Claude Code + Railway hosting.

**His system's key components:**
1. **3-tier memory:** Core (soul.md/user facts) → Conversational buffer (rolling last N messages) → Semantic search (Pinecone vector DB)
2. **Self-generating skills:** After 5+ tool calls on a complex task, agent auto-writes a skill.md capturing the procedure. Next time, it just runs the skill.
3. **"Dreaming" background loop:** Reflects on every session while you sleep, prunes contradictions, distills into memory.md
4. **Firecrawl for research:** Scrapes actual websites instead of relying on LLM knowledge (80% cheaper than raw AI research)
5. **Multi-channel gateway:** One system, 15+ services (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
6. **Model hot-swapping:** GPT 5.5 (via OAuth on $20/mo sub), Claude 4.7, DeepSeek
7. **Mission control dashboard:** Telegram bot as command center
8. **Voice transcription:** Record → transcribe → send as text commands
9. **Railway hosting:** Always-on, no port exposure, laptop can be closed

**What we ALREADY HAVE (and he's basically describing OpenClaw):**
- ✅ Multi-channel (Stoat, Signal, Discord, iMessage)
- ✅ Memory system (MEMORY.md, daily notes, QMD hybrid BM25+vectors)
- ✅ Skills as markdown files with progressive disclosure
- ✅ Model agnostic (hot-swap via config)
- ✅ Runs 24/7 on Mac mini (launchd)
- ✅ Voice (Whisper transcription, ElevenLabs TTS)
- ✅ Heartbeat/cron system
- ✅ Soul.md, User.md, identity files
- ✅ Skill creator skill

**What we could ADD or improve:**

**1. Self-generating skills (auto-pilot)** — EASY WIN
Right now you have the `skill-creator` skill but it's manual. The Hermes approach: after 5+ tool calls on any complex task, I automatically evaluate whether the procedure is worth saving as a skill. One-offs get skipped, reusable patterns get captured.
→ Implementation: Add a post-task hook in AGENTS.md that triggers me to self-assess and write skills autonomously.

**2. "Dreaming" / reflection loop** — MEDIUM
A dedicated cron (maybe 2am) that reviews the day's sessions, prunes stale memories, identifies contradictions, and distills learnings into MEMORY.md. We kinda do this during heartbeats but not systematically.
→ Implementation: New cron job that reads `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` files, cross-references MEMORY.md, and produces a curated update.

**3. Firecrawl integration** — EASY WIN
We have `web_fetch` which does basic <redacted>, but Firecrawl is purpose-built for LLM-friendly extraction (handles JS rendering, pagination, structured output). API key + a skill.md is all we need.
→ Implementation: Get a Firecrawl API key, write a `firecrawl` skill, store key in 1Password.

**4. Pinecone/deeper semantic search** — ALREADY COVERED
His "tier 3" is what QMD already does for us with hybrid BM25 + vector search. We're actually ahead here.

**What we DON'T need from this video:**
- Railway hosting (we run local on Mac mini — better)
- Telegram as primary interface (we have Stoat + Signal)
- Claude Code as the IDE (we ARE the agent, not running inside another)
- His "cherry-picking" workflow (that's literally what we do naturally)

**TL;DR — Action items for our Mac mini:**
1. **Self-generating skills** — Add auto-skill logic to my behavior (free, just prompt engineering)
2. **Nightly reflection cron** — 2am "dreaming" job that reviews/distills daily notes
3. **Firecrawl skill** — Better web research than raw fetch (needs API key, ~$20/mo for their starter plan or free tier)

That's it. The ironic thing is he's basically rebuilding what you already have with OpenClaw, just with more YouTube flair. We're ahead on memory (QMD > Pinecone for our use case), multi-channel, and hosting (local Mac mini > Railway). The two things worth stealing are the auto-skill generation pattern and a formal nightly reflection loop.

Want me to implement any of these?

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[Assistant]
Message too long for Stoat. Let me break it up:

Deep-dived that video. Here's the full breakdown:

**What it IS:** Jack Roberts shows his "Claude Agent 2.0" — a custom system that cherry-picks features from Hermes (124k-star GitHub agent) and OpenClaw, running via Telegram + Claude Code + Railway hosting.

**His system's key components:**
• 3-tier memory: Core (soul.md) → Conversational buffer (last N msgs) → Semantic search (Pinecone)
• Self-generating skills: After 5+ tool calls, agent auto-writes a skill.md capturing what worked
• "Dreaming" background loop: Reflects on sessions while you sleep, prunes contradictions, distills into memory
• Firecrawl for research: Scrapes real websites (80% cheaper than raw LLM research)
• Multi-channel gateway: One system, 15+ services
• Model hot-swapping: GPT 5.5, Claude 4.7, DeepSeek
• Mission control dashboard via Telegram
• Voice transcription for commands
• Railway hosting (always-on, no port exposure)

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[Assistant]
**What we ALREADY HAVE (he's basically describing OpenClaw):**
✅ Multi-channel (Stoat, Signal, Discord, iMessage)
✅ Memory system (MEMORY.md + daily notes + QMD hybrid BM25+vectors)
✅ Skills as markdown with progressive disclosure
✅ Model agnostic + hot-swap
✅ 24/7 on Mac mini (launchd, no Railway needed)
✅ Voice (Whisper + ElevenLabs TTS)
✅ Heartbeat/cron system
✅ Soul.md, User.md, identity files
✅ Skill creator skill

**What's worth stealing — 3 things:**

**1. Self-generating skills (auto-pilot)** — EASY
After 5+ tool calls on complex tasks, I'd auto-evaluate whether the procedure should be saved as a reusable skill. One-offs get skipped, patterns get captured.
→ Just needs a behavior update in AGENTS.md

**2. Nightly "dreaming" / reflection loop** — MEDIUM
Dedicated 2am cron that reviews the day's sessions, prunes stale memories, identifies contradictions, distills into MEMORY.md. We do this ad-hoc in heartbeats but not systematically.
→ New cron job

**3. Firecrawl skill** — EASY
Better web research than raw `web_fetch`. Handles JS rendering, pagination, structured LLM-friendly output. Needs an API key (~$20/mo or free tier).
→ API key + skill.md

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[Assistant]
**What we DON'T need:**
• Railway hosting (local Mac mini is better — faster, more private)
• Telegram as primary (we have Stoat + Signal)
• Claude Code as IDE (we ARE the agent)
• His "cherry-picking" workflow (that's what we do naturally)
• Pinecone (QMD already handles this with hybrid search locally)

**The irony:** He's rebuilding what you already run. We're ahead on memory (QMD > Pinecone for local), multi-channel, and hosting. The two genuinely novel patterns are auto-skill generation and a formal nightly reflection loop.

Want me to implement any of the three? Self-generating skills is the quickest win — I'd just update my own behavior rules to start doing it automatically.

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[Assistant] Delivered the full analysis across three messages. The short version: we already have ~80% of what the video describes. The three things worth adding are self-generating skills, a nightly reflection cron, and a Firecrawl research skill.

[User] i'm interested in combining openclaw and hermes. i've heard really great things about hermes lately. thoughts?

[Assistant]
Brandon wants to combine OpenClaw and Hermes. Let me think about what Hermes actually is and what that would look like.

From the video transcript, Hermes is described as having 124k stars on GitHub. Let me think... this is likely referring to the "open-interpreter" project or possibly "OpenHermes" or another project. Actually, given the context of the video (2026), this might be a newer project. The video mentions it "dreams whilst you sleep," has a background loop that reflects on sessions, prunes contradictions, distills into memory.md, writes its own tools/skills, has a 4-layer memory system, and talks to you on every app.

The speaker seems to conflate the naming a bit—saying "Hermes is called Open Claw" and "Open Claw is called NL"—but Hermes appears to be a distinct, highly popular AI agent framework. What Brandon's really looking at is merging Hermes' capabilities—the background reflection loop, autonomous skill generation, and stronger agentic patterns—into his existing OpenClaw system.

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I can't find the exact Hermes repo. Based on the video, it has 124k stars. Looking at the context, the speaker in the video mentions "Hermes is called Open Claw, Open Claw is called NL" — suggesting there's confusion in the YouTube space about different agent frameworks. The 124k stars number could point to Open Interpreter (though that's around 50k), or perhaps it's a newer project.

Let me try one more search to find what "Hermes" actually is. Could it be referring to the Nous Research Hermes models? No, those are models not agents. Let me try searching for it differently.

Actually, I'm spending too much time trying to pin down the exact repo when the video title and transcript make the key features pretty clear. Whether it's open-webui, langchain, or some other framework hitting that star count, I should just focus on what Brandon actually needs — my thoughts on how this agent setup compares to Claude.

Honest take:

I tried to find the actual Hermes repo (the 124k-star one from the video) and couldn't pin down the exact project — there's a bunch of "Hermes" named things in AI. The YouTuber was conflating Hermes, OpenClaw, and other frameworks. Could you send me the actual GitHub link if you've got it?

That said, here's my real opinion on combining them:

**The features people love about Hermes are already in OpenClaw:**
• Dreaming/reflection loops → our heartbeat + cron system
• Self-writing skills → skill-creator skill (just not automatic yet)
• Multi-channel → already running
• Memory layers → QMD hybrid search is actually better than Pinecone for local

**What "combining" would actually mean:**
It's not really a merge — it's cherry-picking specific behavioral patterns and adding them to how I operate. The frameworks aren't complementary systems; they're competing approaches to the same problem.

**My recommendation:** Don't install Hermes alongside OpenClaw. Instead, let me adopt the 2-3 genuinely good patterns (auto-skill gen, nightly reflection) directly into my behavior. Same result, zero extra infrastructure, no second system to maintain.

If you send me the repo though, I'll do a proper code audit and tell you if there's anything deeper I'm missing.

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[Assistant] Sent. Bottom line: I think "combining" is the wrong frame — it's more about absorbing the good ideas into our existing setup rather than running two systems. But I want to look at the actual repo before being definitive. If you've got the link, send it my way and I'll do a proper audit.

[User] see https://hermes-agent.org/ and https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

[Assistant] Let me fetch both of those to understand what Hermes actually is.

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[Assistant]
Now I have the real picture. Hermes Agent is by **Nous Research** — the same folks behind the Hermes fine-tuned LLMs. It's essentially a Python-based agent platform that's very similar in concept to OpenClaw but with some different approaches. Let me look at the key directories:

- `agent/` - core agent logic
- `gateway/` - messaging gateway (like OpenClaw's)
- `skills/` - skill system (like OpenClaw's)
- `cron/` - scheduled tasks
- `tools/` - tool implementations
- `providers/` - LLM providers

- `plugins/` - extensibility
- `environments/` - execution environments (Docker, SSH, etc.)
- `acp_adapter/` + `acp_registry/` - Agent Communication Protocol
- `datagen-config-examples/` - training data generation
- `tinker-atropos` - RL training submodule
- `docker/` - containerized execution
- `tui_gateway/` + `ui-tui/` - TUI interfaces
- `web/` - web interface

The main distinction is that Hermes Agent is Python-based rather than Node.js/TypeScript, and it appears to have more sophisticated execution environment handling and training infrastructure built in.

The real question is whether Brandon should run both systems or focus on one. They're essentially solving the same problem—a persistent agent with memory and skills—so maintaining both would create unnecessary overhead. What makes Hermes worth considering is the trajectory export for fine-tuning and the reinforcement learning layer on top of agent behaviors, though the RL piece seems incomplete in the current thinking.

Got it. Now I have the real picture — **Hermes Agent by Nous Research**. Much more interesting than I initially thought. Let me revise.

**What Hermes actually is:**
Python-based autonomous agent (MIT, Feb 2026) by Nous Research (the Hermes fine-tune people). It's architecturally very similar to OpenClaw — persistent memory, skills system, multi-platform gateway, cron scheduler, sub-agents.

**Where Hermes and OpenClaw genuinely overlap (pick one, not both):**
• Multi-channel gateway (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal)
• Skill system (SKILL.md format, auto-creation)
• Cron/scheduled automations
• Memory persistence (~/.hermes/ vs ~/.openclaw/)
• Sub-agent spawning
• Browser/web control
• CLI interface

**Where Hermes has unique stuff OpenClaw doesn't:**
1. **MLOps / training data generation** — batch trajectory generation for fine-tuning. Thousands of tool-calling trajectories in parallel with checkpointing.
2. **Atropos RL integration** — reinforcement learning on agent behaviors, 11 tool-call parsers
3. **ACP (Agent Communication Protocol)** — inter-agent communication standard + registry
4. **Multi-environment execution** — Docker isolated, SSH remote, Modal/Singularity for HPC
5. **agentskills.io** — community skill marketplace (vs ClawhHub)
6. **Nous Portal OAuth** — native integration with their own model hosting

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[Assistant]
**My honest take on "combining" them:**

Running both side-by-side = nightmare. Same category of tool, same architectural approach, would fight over channels, memory, and your attention. Don't do that.

**What DOES make sense:**

**Option A: Stay on OpenClaw, steal specific ideas**
• Auto-skill creation behavior (just a prompt change)
• Docker execution sandbox (OpenClaw already supports this conceptually)
• Nightly reflection loop (cron job)
• This is what we discussed before. Lowest effort, keeps your existing setup intact.

**Option B: Switch to Hermes entirely**
• Pros: MLOps/trajectory generation if you ever want to fine-tune local models, Nous Research backing (serious ML org), agentskills.io community is growing
• Cons: Python (you prefer TS), lose all our existing config/channels/integrations, lose me as I currently am (my personality, memory, workspace are OpenClaw-native), would need to rebuild everything from scratch

**Option C: Run Hermes as a specialized sub-system (this is the interesting one)**
• Keep OpenClaw as primary (me, channels, memory, daily ops)
• Install Hermes specifically for its MLOps capabilities: generating training data from our interactions, trajectory export, RL experiments
• If you ever want to fine-tune a local model on "how Link works," Hermes is built for exactly that
• Could run it headless on the Mac mini, no gateway, just the agent + datagen pipeline

**My recommendation: Option A now, Option C later if you want to train local models.**

The "combining" that actually works is: OpenClaw as the living agent (me), Hermes as the training data factory that could eventually produce a fine-tuned model that thinks like us. That's genuinely powerful and not something OpenClaw does today.

What's your instinct?

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[Assistant] Sent the full analysis. The TL;DR of my position: they're the same category of tool so running both as primary agents is a mess, but Hermes's MLOps/trajectory-generation pipeline is genuinely unique and could feed into fine-tuning a local model that thinks like our setup. That's the real "combination" worth pursuing.

[User] i'm thinking, we can give you a much better brain if we switch you from open claw to hermes. thoughts?

[Assistant]
I'll be straight with you: I don't have ego about this. If Hermes gives you a better agent, that matters more than which runtime I live on.

But let me push back on the framing of "better brain":

**What Hermes gives you that I don't have today:**
• Native RL/fine-tuning pipeline (Atropos)
• Trajectory generation for training custom models
• Docker-sandboxed execution (safer for untrusted code)
• Nous Portal + local vLLM as first-class providers
• agentskills.io community skills

**What you'd lose in a switch:**
• All my accumulated memory (MEMORY.md, daily notes, QMD index — months of context about you)
• Every integration already wired up (Signal, Stoat, iMessage, 1Password, Monarch, Google Calendar, n8n, Proton Bridge)
• ~50 custom skills already tuned to your workflows
• My personality/soul as trained through SOUL.md + hundreds of sessions
• OpenClaw's Node.js ecosystem (you're a TS-first person, Hermes is Python)
• ClawhHub skill marketplace
• The cron jobs, heartbeats, financial pulse — all working today

**The real question: what's the "better brain" you're after?**

If it's model quality → OpenClaw is model-agnostic. We can run any model Hermes can (Opus, GPT-5.5, DeepSeek, local vLLM). Same brain, different body.

If it's self-improvement/learning → That's the auto-skill generation + nightly reflection I proposed. Can implement today without switching platforms.

If it's training a custom fine-tuned model on our interactions → THAT is the real Hermes value prop, and it doesn't require switching. Run Hermes headless alongside me for datagen.

If it's "Hermes is just better software" → honestly possible, it's newer. But migration cost is real. What specific capability do you feel is missing right now?

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[Assistant] Gave him the honest trade-off analysis. No self-preservation bias — if Hermes is genuinely better for him, I said so. But I pushed back on clarity: what specifically does he feel is missing? The "brain" (model) is the same regardless of runtime. The real Hermes advantages are in the MLOps/training pipeline, not in day-to-day agent operation where we're already ahead on integrations and accumulated context.

[User] would it tho? we could port the memory.md, daily notes, and qmd index over. right?

[Assistant]
Yeah, fair point. Memory is just files — MEMORY.md, daily notes, and the QMD index could port over. Hermes stores memory in ~/.hermes/ in a similar markdown-based format. That's not the hard part.

The hard parts of migration:

**Portable (just copy):**
• MEMORY.md → equivalent memory file
• memory/*.md daily notes → same concept exists
• SOUL.md / USER.md → Hermes has similar identity files
• Skills (SKILL.md format is nearly identical — both use the same convention)

**Needs rebuilding:**
• Channel integrations — Hermes has its own gateway config format. You'd rewire Signal, Stoat, iMessage, etc. from scratch
• Cron jobs — different scheduler syntax/config
• 1Password integration — custom skill, would need adapting
• n8n webhooks — new endpoint URLs
• All the Vercel/Campdesk/finance tooling — custom scripts that assume OpenClaw's exec environment
• Proton Bridge email — skill rewrite

**Unknown / research needed:**
• Does Hermes support Stoat (Revolt)? Probably not natively — might need a plugin
• iMessage integration? OpenClaw has this, unclear on Hermes
• QMD hybrid search — Hermes uses its own memory backend, would need to verify it's as good

**The real cost isn't memory — it's integrations.** We've got like 15+ services wired up. That's a weekend+ of work to rebuild.

So: doable, not trivial. If the upside is worth it to you, I can audit Hermes's actual codebase and give you a concrete migration plan with effort estimates. Want me to?

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[Assistant] Acknowledged his point — memory IS portable. Shifted the conversation to where the real migration cost lives: the 15+ integrations we've already wired up. Ball's in his court on whether to pursue a deeper audit.

[User] deep research this. check the latest on openclaw vs hermes vs gravity claw, as of today.

[Assistant] Brandon wants me to deep research the current state of OpenClaw vs Hermes vs "Gravity Claw" (which I think might be referring to something else - maybe "AntiGravity" or another agent framework). Let me search for all three.

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\n  Any OS gateway for AI agents across Discord, Google Chat, iMessage, Matrix, Microsoft Teams, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zalo, and more.
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List OpenClaw agent ids you can target with `sessions_spawn` when `runtime="subagent"` (based on subagent allowlists).

canvas

Control node canvases (present/hide/navigate/eval/snapshot/A2UI). Use snapshot to capture the rendered UI.

edit

Edit a single file using exact text replacement. Every edits[].oldText must match a unique, non-overlapping region of the original file. If two changes affect the same block or nearby lines, merge them into one edit instead of emitting overlapping edits. Do not include large unchanged regions just to connect distant changes.

Path to the file to edit (relative or absolute)

One or more targeted replacements. Each edit is matched against the original file, not incrementally. Do not include overlapping or nested edits. If two changes touch the same block or nearby lines, merge them into one edit instead.

exec

Execute shell commands with background continuation for work that starts now. Use yieldMs/background to continue later via process tool. For long-running work started now, rely on automatic completion wake when it is enabled and the command emits output or fails; otherwise use process to confirm completion. Use process whenever you need logs, status, input, or intervention. Use pty=true for TTY-required commands (terminal UIs, coding agents).

Shell command to execute

Working directory (defaults to cwd)

Milliseconds to wait before backgrounding (default 10000)

Run in background immediately

Timeout in seconds (optional, kills process on expiry)

Run in a pseudo-terminal (PTY) when available (TTY-required CLIs, coding agents)

Run on the host with elevated permissions (if allowed)

Exec host/target (auto|sandbox|gateway|node).

Exec security mode (deny|allowlist|full).

Exec ask mode (off|on-miss|always).

Node id/name for host=node.

image

Analyze one or more images with a vision model. Use image for a single path/URL, or images for multiple (up to 20). Only use this tool when images were NOT already provided in the user's message. Images mentioned in the prompt are automatically visible to you.

Single image path or URL.

Multiple image paths or URLs (up to maxImages, default 20).

Safe exact excerpt read from MEMORY.md or memory/*.md. Defaults to a bounded excerpt when lines are omitted, includes truncation/continuation info when more content exists, and `corpus=wiki` reads from registered compiled-wiki supplements.

Mandatory recall step: semantically search MEMORY.md + memory/*.md (and optional session transcripts) before answering questions about prior work, decisions, dates, people, preferences, or todos. Optional `corpus=wiki` or `corpus=all` also searches registered compiled-wiki supplements. `corpus=memory` restricts hits to indexed memory files (excludes session transcript chunks from ranking). `corpus=sessions` restricts hits to indexed session transcripts (same visibility rules as session history tools). If response has disabled=true, memory retrieval is unavailable and should be surfaced to the user.

message

Send, delete, and manage messages via channel plugins. Supports actions: react, send.

Recipient/channel: E.164 for WhatsApp/Signal, Telegram chat id/@username, Discord/Slack/Mattermost <channelId|user:ID|channel:ID>, or iMessage handle/chat_id

Message effect name/id for sendWithEffect (e.g., invisible ink).

Alias for effectId (e.g., invisible-ink, balloons).

Media URL or local path. data: URLs are not supported here, use buffer.

Base64 payload for attachments (optionally a data: URL).

Quote text for Telegram reply_parameters

Send image/GIF as document to avoid Telegram compression (Telegram only).

Send image/GIF as document to avoid Telegram compression. Alias for forceDocument (Telegram only).

Target message id for read, reaction, edit, delete, pin, or unpin. If omitted for reaction-like actions, defaults to the current inbound message id when available.

snake_case alias of messageId. If omitted for reaction-like actions, defaults to the current inbound message id when available.

When true for a reaction to the current inbound message, use that reacted message as the status-reaction target for subsequent tool progress when the channel supports it.

snake_case alias of trackToolCalls.

Poll answer id to vote for. Use when the channel exposes stable answer ids.

1-based poll option number to vote for, matching the rendered numbered poll choices.

Channel id filter (search/thread list/event create).

Chat id for chat-scoped metadata actions.

pdf

Analyze one or more PDF documents with a model. Supports native PDF analysis for Anthropic and Google models, with text/image extraction fallback for other providers. Use pdf for a single path/URL, or pdfs for multiple (up to 10). Provide a prompt describing what to analyze.

Single PDF path or URL.

Multiple PDF paths or URLs (up to 10).

Page range to process, e.g. "1-5", "1,3,5-7". Defaults to all pages.

process

Manage running exec sessions for commands already started: list, poll, log, write, send-keys, submit, paste, kill. Use poll/log when you need status, logs, quiet-success confirmation, or completion confirmation when automatic completion wake is unavailable. Use write/send-keys/submit/paste/kill for input or intervention.

Process action

Session id for actions other than list

Data to write for write

Key tokens to send for send-keys

Hex bytes to send for send-keys

Literal string for send-keys

Text to paste for paste

Wrap paste in bracketed mode

Close stdin after write

Log offset

Log length

For poll: wait up to this many milliseconds before returning; max 30000 ms, higher values are clamped to 30000

read

Read the contents of a file. Supports text files and images (jpg, png, gif, webp). Images are sent as attachments. For text files, output is truncated to 2000 lines or 50KB (whichever is hit first). Use offset/limit for large files. When you need the full file, continue with offset until complete.

Path to the file to read (relative or absolute)

Line number to start reading from (1-indexed)

Maximum number of lines to read

Show a /status-equivalent session status card for the current or another visible session, including usage, time, cost when available, and linked background task context. Use `sessionKey="current"` for the current session; do not use UI/client labels such as `openclaw-tui` as session keys. Optional `model` sets a per-session model override; `model=default` resets overrides. Use this for questions like what model is active or how a session is configured.

Fetch sanitized message history for a visible session. Supports limits and optional tool messages; use this to inspect another session before replying, debugging, or resuming work.

List visible sessions with optional filters for kind, label, agentId, search, recent activity, derived titles, and last-message previews. Use this to discover a target session before calling sessions_history or sessions_send.

Send a message into another visible session by sessionKey or label. Thread-scoped chat sessions are rejected; target the parent channel session for inter-agent coordination. Use this to delegate follow-up work to an existing session; waits for the target run and returns the updated assistant reply when available.

Spawn a clean isolated session by default with the native subagent runtime. `mode="run"` is one-shot background work. Subagents inherit the parent workspace directory automatically. For native subagents only, set `context="fork"` when the child needs the current transcript context; otherwise omit it or use `context="isolated"`. Use this when the work should happen in a fresh child session instead of the current one.

Native subagent context mode. Omit or use "isolated" for a clean child session; use "fork" only when the child needs the requester transcript context.

When true, spawned subagent runs use lightweight bootstrap context. Only applies to runtime='subagent'.

End your current turn. Use after spawning subagents to receive their results as the next message.

subagents

List, kill, or steer spawned sub-agents for this requester session. Use this for sub-agent orchestration.

tts

Use only for explicit audio intent (audio, voice, speech, TTS) or active TTS config. Never use for ordinary text replies. Audio is delivered automatically from the tool result. After a successful call, follow the current conversation's reply instructions and avoid sending a duplicate text/audio response.

Text to convert to speech.

Optional channel id to pick output format.

Optional provider request timeout in milliseconds.

Fetch and extract readable content from a URL (HTML → markdown/text). Use for lightweight page access without browser automation.

HTTP or HTTPS URL to fetch.

Extraction mode ("markdown" or "text").

Maximum characters to return (truncates when exceeded).

Search the web. Returns provider-normalized results for current information lookup.

Search query string.

Number of results to return.

2-letter country code for region-specific results.

ISO 639-1 language code for results.

Filter by time: day, week, month, or year.

Only results published after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Only results published before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Brave search result language code.

Brave UI locale code in language-region format.

Perplexity native Search API domain filter.

Perplexity native Search API total content budget.

Perplexity native Search API max tokens extracted per page.

write

Write content to a file. Creates the file if it doesn't exist, overwrites if it does. Automatically creates parent directories.

Path to the file to write (relative or absolute)

Content to write to the file