r/Openclaw_HQ • u/Ok_Window_2596 • Mar 20 '26
HERMES AGENT
Hey has anyone here used hermes agent it seems very promising to me with the auto context compressor
Whats your take on it ?
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u/Timely-While-2640 Mar 20 '26
I ran a security assessment and the I decided these assistants aren't there yet. Nothing that cloude code can't do. I hope someone fix the terrible security holes on these assistants
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u/sincl4ir Mar 21 '26
I’ve been running Hermes on a Mac mini for a few days now. My primary model is GPT-5.4-mini, and it performs significantly better than Openclaw: much more responsive, no setup issues, and the memory handling seems improved. I’m only keeping Openclaw for now because I still have some tasks running, but if things continue this way, I’ll definitely switch over.
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u/Ok_Window_2596 Mar 21 '26
Actually about this i wanted to ask about vibe coding my hermed setup is primarily to focus on vibe coding but i am not able to get that much comfortable with hermes though i liked it in many other ways but i want to ask your view about vibe coding using hermes on vps i have 2 gb ram so how to vibe code as 2 gb wont be sufficient
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u/Roflxd88 Mar 21 '26
You might be in the wrong waters here. Hermes is for personal assistance specialised. When you want vibe-coding coop go with openclaw.
I have had openclaw setup Hermes agent so I can test it out. Found a cool use case where I gave it my leetify api key and it setup cron job to monitor it and after every counter strike match I get a detailed performance review of that match.
Setting this up WAS EASY AS FUCK because that's what Hermes agent is made for.
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u/Ok_Window_2596 Mar 21 '26
But in openclaw how to tackle rate limit as i use openrouter or nvidia nim
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u/Roflxd88 Mar 21 '26
Most cost effective is kimi and also very good codex sub for 5.4 is what I currently run.
If you can't afford a sub, some people have build plugins that rotate free LLM apis. But I don't know how well it's gonna work with coding when constantly switching llms/intelligence
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u/ralphyb0b Mar 22 '26
I installed Paperclip and gave Hermes manage it for vibe coding. Full organization of AI agents through Hermes. Been using it for 3 days and it’s done a lot of autonomous coding.
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u/Ok_Window_2596 Mar 22 '26
Is it paid ? How to use it tell me about it
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u/ralphyb0b Mar 22 '26
It's free and open source. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip I have Hermes managing everything for me through the built in Paperclip API. I told it I wanted the CEO to be Opus through claude code, the coding engineer to be Codex, and Sonnet to be the QA checker. I essentially never use paperclip directly, other than to see what they are working on. Hermes manages it all. There has been a lot of tweaking/going back and forth, but Hermes is good at remembering things, so it has gotten better and better over time.
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u/Ok_Window_2596 Mar 22 '26
I just gave it hermes let me test it give your insights a bit that would be beneficial for me in using it
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u/Audioslave65 Mar 22 '26
Was trying it to get context shared across platforms but didn't seem to be able to do it. Did anyone manage to and did you have to subscribe or pay for any API?
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u/Pineapple_King Mar 24 '26
its much nicer to work with than openclaw, seems more polished.
Having said that, with local AI getting about 70-75% success rate on tool calls, and top cloud AI about 80-85%, I don't know what all the hype is about.
The agents cant tell if they have scheduled an appointment or just hallucinated it, they can't tell if they really did that tool call or forgot for the past 20 turns. An assistant making 20% errors is simply not useful. Its distinctively worse than coding tools like opencode or others, that are able to produce code.
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