Folks,
I’m setting up Hermes Agent on my Mac with Ollama hosting a local model. But I’m on the fence on whether I should go with Hermes or OpenClaw. Hermes makes some pretty bold claims about “growing with you” and “self improvement”.
Anyone have any insight into whether it’s as good as promised?
hermes has some built in agent orchestration layer which seems cool on paper. never tried it. other small nice things that are unique to hermes which other agents really don’t have, which I have actually tried, include: switchable agent personalities, pretty decent thread suspension mechanism, decent webhook subscriptions, and human delay mode. The biggest thing, at least in my opinion, is certainly: Self-improving skills with patching - with an entire slew of caveats… In my opinion, this is useful but I strongly recommend using a manual review process. Otherwise, the agent has the potential to “teach itself wrong”. Human review.
Yeah I’ve been trying for hours to get it to make a simple token counting skill. It keeps getting it wrong.
It has webhook subscriptions? That’s cool I guess. How do you use the switchable agent personalities?
you can try to ask the agent to talk like a pirate for example