Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?

Synopsis

Imran Muthuvappa demos Hermes Agent, a personal AI agent with built-in memory, 40+ tools and pre-installed skills out of the box. He walks through why he left OpenClaw (no memory, gateway restarts hourly, no token visibility), installs Hermes on Mac and on Android via Termux, reports a ~90% cut in token spend by switching to OpenRouter, and covers Telegram and Obsidian integration, the must-install skills (Obsidian, Honcho memory, G-Stack) and the meta-prompting habit of asking the agent every night 'what should I automate next'.

Ideas in this episode

• AI executive assistant agent

  Hermes is presented as a cost-optimized personal-agent shell with memory, 40+ tools, pre-installed skills, Telegram and Obsidian integration, and a nightly meta-prompt habit of asking what should be automated next.