Hermes Agent Just Made OpenClaw Look Old

Hermes Agent might've just dethroned OpenClaw as the best open-source autonomous AI agent. It's local-first, runs on your laptop, stores everything locally, and you can talk to it from your terminal, Slack, or Telegram. In this video I walk through the install, the built-in dashboard (analytics, logs, cron jobs, 87 prebuilt skills), how to set up multi-agent profiles with different models per role, and how the Kanban board automates task management with a cron job that triages and enriches tasks for you. Thank you to our exclusive sponsor: PayPal Open, One Platform for All Business: http://paypalopen.com/ 🔗 Install Hermes Agent: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash 🔗 Hermes Agent docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 What Hermes Agent is and why it beats OpenClaw 0:57 How to install (60 seconds) 1:15 What Hermes can actually do 2:14 82+ built-in integrations 2:35 Dashboard walkthrough: sessions, analytics, models 3:09 Sponsor: PayPal Open 3:40 Logs, cron jobs, and 87 built-in skills 4:33 Multi-agent profiles (Designer, Researcher, Reviewer, Runner, X Writer) 5:08 Editing the SOUL.md system prompt 6:17 Settings and API key management 7:05 The Kanban board (and the cron job that runs it) 8:00 How tasks move from triage to done automatically #HermesAgent #NousResearch #OpenClaw #AIAgents #AICoding #LocalFirst #DevTools #AI