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1,084 practical setup, security, deployment, and workflow guides for OpenClaw operators, written from real deployments rather than generic AI-tool advice. Search the archive, filter by category, and jump straight into the posts that match your problem.

Guide9 min read

Codex CLI: The Practical Guide to OpenAI's Terminal Agent (2026)

Codex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal: it reads, edits, and executes code in a selected directory, installs with one command via curl, npm, or Homebrew, and authenticates with either a ChatGPT plan or an API key. This guide is the hands-on reference for the CLI tool itself: install, config.toml, models, key commands, and MCP setup. For how the CLI fits alongside the Codex app, IDE extension, and cloud agent, see our broader OpenAI Codex ecosystem guide .

Zac FrulloniJuly 7, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Codex CLI MCP: When MCP Actually Improves Codex Workflows

Codex CLI becomes much more interesting when it can reach the right tools and docs through MCP. But that does not mean every workflow needs an MCP layer. The practical question is whether tool access improves the work enough to justify the extra moving parts.

Zac FrulloniApril 26, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide5 min read

Codex Plugin for Claude Code Guide [2026]: Review and Delegate from Claude Code

If you want the practical answer first, the Codex plugin for Claude Code is a bridge layer that lets you pull OpenAI Codex into a Claude Code workflow for reviews and delegated tasks. It is useful when you already live in Claude Code but want Codex as a second reviewer or background worker. It is not a replacement for learning either tool properly.

Claude Market TeamApril 3, 2026

Guide9 min read

Codex vs Claude Code: The 2026 Head-to-Head Comparison

Codex vs Claude Code comes down to one tradeoff in 2026: Claude Code is the deeper agent, with a 1M-token context window, MCP servers, skills, hooks, and subagent teams, while OpenAI Codex delivers more coding volume per dollar and the strongest GitHub automation. Pick Claude Code for large-codebase and long-horizon agentic work; pick Codex if usage limits and pull-request review are your bottleneck. The rest of this guide compares models, pricing, CLI experience, MCP support, and agent features, verified against both vendors' documentation as of July 2026.

Zac FrulloniJuly 5, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Best Practices for OpenClaw Dispatch and Cron Scheduling

Getting Dispatch workflows to run on a schedule is easy. Getting them to run reliably, efficiently, and without burning through your token budget is the hard part. Most operators set up a few cron jobs, watch them work for a day, and then forget about them — until something fails silently and they discover the problem three weeks later.

Zac FrulloniApril 6, 2026

Guide8 min read

Commercial vs Self-Hosted AI Agents: Which Model Fits Your Needs?

The AI agent market in 2026 splits into two distinct camps. On one side, commercial platforms like Lindy, Relevance AI, and AgentOps offer managed AI agents as a service: you sign up, configure your agent through a web interface, and pay a monthly fee. On the other side, self-hosted frameworks like OpenClaw let you run your own agent on your own infrastructure with full control over every aspect of its operation.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026

Integration Guide4 min read

Discord MCP Skill: Add AI to Your Server in Minutes

Discord servers are where communities, dev teams, and creator groups collaborate. The Discord MCP skill on OpenClaw Bazaar brings AI-powered assistance directly into your server -- across channels, threads, DMs, and slash commands -- without building a custom bot from scratch.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Beginner Guide7 min read

Common OpenClaw Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Every OpenClaw beginner makes mistakes. That is normal. But some mistakes waste hours of your time and leave you thinking the tool does not work when the real problem is a simple configuration issue or a misunderstanding about how skills interact. Here are the ten most common mistakes and exactly how to avoid each one.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team29 March 2026

Guide9 min read

Compass: AI Life Assistant for OpenClaw — Your Day, Sorted [2026]

Compass is an AI Life Assistant persona for OpenClaw . It's the simplest, most personal persona in the lineup — designed to make your daily life work better without requiring any technical complexity to set up.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Personal Systems4 min read

Compass for Busy Founders: When Personal Chaos Starts Hurting Work

Compass is the right first OpenClaw buy when personal chaos starts hurting work quality, follow-through, and daily founder execution. If the founder's business problems are being amplified by missed reminders, messy mornings, and weak personal organization, a personal operating layer often has more leverage than another business-only tool.

Zac FrulloniApril 15, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Review7 min read

Compass Life Assistant Persona Review: The Simplest Way to Organize Your Day

Compass is the most approachable persona in the OpenClaw Bazaar. While Atlas targets executives and Muse focuses on content creators, Compass is built for anyone who wants their daily life to feel organized without spending time organizing it. We installed it, tested it for a month, and wrote down everything worth knowing.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Guide7 min read

Complete Checklist: Choosing the Right AI Persona

Picking an AI persona isn't about finding the "best" one — it's about matching the right capabilities to the tasks that actually eat your time. The wrong persona sits idle. The right one saves 10-20 hours per week from day one.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

The Complete Guide to OpenClaw: Setup, Security, Memory, and Operations

OpenClaw is free, open-source AI agent software that runs 24/7 on your own hardware, connects to messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Slack, and uses AI models like Claude or GPT-4 to execute real tasks autonomously. It was previously known as ClawDBot (November 2025) and MOLTBot (January 2026) before settling on the OpenClaw name on January 30, 2026.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026 · Updated regularly

Guide7 min read

Context7 MCP Server: Install and Use It in Claude Code

Context7 is an open-source MCP server from Upstash that pulls up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for thousands of libraries and injects them directly into your AI assistant's context. It exists because LLMs train on data that is months or years old, so without it they hallucinate APIs that never existed and suggest deprecated methods; with it, adding "use context7" to a prompt fetches current docs straight from the source.

Zac FrulloniJuly 2, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

AI Assistants6 min read

Create My Own AI Assistant: The Fastest Way to Go From Idea to Working Operator

Create My Own AI Assistant is usually a stack-shaping problem, not a model problem. The fastest path from idea to a working operator is to define one job, one channel, and one starting stack first, then use the skills hub if you want to assemble your own setup or the marketplace if you want a faster ready-made baseline.

Zac FrulloniMay 17, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

Cursor AI: What It Is, Pricing, and How It Compares in 2026

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built as a fork of Visual Studio Code, developed by Anysphere, Inc. It integrates AI capabilities directly into the editing experience — intelligent autocomplete, multi-file code generation, an agent mode that executes terminal commands, and as of Cursor 3.0 (launched April 2, 2026), a dedicated Agents Window for managing background coding tasks.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

DeepSeek V3.2 on OpenClaw: The Cheapest Frontier Model

DeepSeek V3.2 is the latest iteration of DeepSeek's flagship language model, developed by the Hangzhou-based AI lab that has repeatedly proven that frontier performance does not require frontier pricing. With 671 billion total parameters in a Mixture of Experts architecture (37 billion active per inference), V3.2 delivers benchmark scores that rival models costing 100-200x more per token.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on AWS Lightsail: Simplified AWS Guide

AWS is the default choice for infrastructure, but EC2 scares people — and rightfully so. The pricing is unpredictable, the console has hundreds of services, and a misconfigured security group can cost you money you did not budget for. Lightsail is Amazon's answer to this: simplified cloud instances with flat monthly pricing, bundled networking, and a clean management console.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide7 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on Contabo: Budget VPS Guide

Contabo is the provider you choose when raw specs per dollar is the priority. Their VPS S plan gives you 4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, and 200GB SSD for €5.99/mo — roughly $6.50 USD. For context, Hetzner's €4.15/mo plan gives you 2 vCPUs and 4GB RAM. Contabo doubles both for about $2 more per month.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide7 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on Hetzner: Step-by-Step VPS Guide

Hetzner is the infrastructure provider that operators keep coming back to when the goal is maximum performance per dollar. Their CX22 plan gives you 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, and 40GB of NVMe storage for €4.15/mo — roughly $4.50 USD. For an OpenClaw agent that needs to run 24/7 without interruption, that is genuinely hard to beat.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide6 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on Linode (Akamai): Complete Setup Guide

Linode — now operating as Akamai Connected Cloud — has been a developer-favorite VPS provider for over two decades. The interface is clean, pricing is predictable, and the network performance is consistently solid. For OpenClaw operators who want a no-surprises hosting experience, Linode is a strong choice.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide8 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on Oracle Cloud Free Tier: Zero-Cost Setup Guide

Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier is the best-kept secret in cloud computing for operators on a budget. While other providers give you 1 vCPU and 1GB RAM for $5-6/mo, Oracle gives you 4 Ampere A1 OCPUs and 24GB RAM for free — permanently. Not a 30-day trial. Not a promotional credit. Free forever, as long as the instance is running.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide6 min read

How to Deploy OpenClaw on Vultr: Cloud Compute Setup Guide

Vultr stands out for one thing above everything else: datacenter coverage. With 32 locations worldwide, you can place your OpenClaw agent closer to your AI provider's API endpoint than with almost any other budget VPS provider. Combined with hourly billing, a solid API, and a clean deployment interface, Vultr is a strong option for operators who value geographic flexibility.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide7 min read

Done-For-You OpenClaw Setup for Teams (SetupClaw)

Sponsored: this guide is sponsored by SetupClaw. Remote OpenClaw may earn a commission if you buy through the links below.

Zac FrulloniJune 23, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide5 min read

Emergent AI Agent Wingman: What It Is in April 2026

Emergent AI agent Wingman is Emergent's new messaging-first autonomous agent that runs through WhatsApp and Telegram instead of a conventional browser dashboard. Emergent's April 15, 2026 launch post says Wingman can act across Gmail, Slack, GitHub, LinkedIn, Zapier, calendars, and spreadsheets, which makes this less of a chatbot launch and more of a lightweight operator product.

Zac Frulloni21 April 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Business8 min read

Enterprise OpenClaw: Security, Compliance, and Scale

Enterprises do not adopt AI tools casually. Every new tool that touches source code, customer data, or internal systems must clear security review, compliance validation, and architecture approval before it reaches a single developer's machine. OpenClaw is designed for this reality. This guide covers how enterprises evaluate, deploy, and scale OpenClaw while meeting the security and compliance requirements that govern their operations.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team29 March 2026

Business8 min read

The Ethics of AI Coding Agents: What Developers Should Know

AI coding agents are no longer experimental. They are embedded in production workflows at companies of every size, generating code that ships to millions of users. And yet the ethical frameworks around their use are still catching up. Most developers have a vague sense that there are questions to ask — about ownership, attribution, bias, security, and responsibility — but few have thought through the answers systematically.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team29 March 2026

Guide11 min read

Everything Claude Code: The Complete 2026 Guide

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools, available in the terminal, your IDE, a desktop app, and the browser. This guide is the complete hub for everything Claude Code, from installing it in one line to wiring up MCP servers, skills, subagents, agent teams, hooks, and settings, with every command verified against the official Claude Code documentation as of July 2026. If you want one page that maps the whole system and points to a deeper guide for each piece, this is it.

Zac FrulloniJuly 5, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

Fable 5 and Mythos 5: What's the Difference?

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 share the exact same capabilities, specs, and pricing — both run on a 1M-token context window, output up to 128K tokens, keep adaptive thinking always on, and cost $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. The one meaningful difference is that Claude Mythos 5 omits the safety classifiers built into Claude Fable 5 and is offered only through Anthropic's limited-release Project Glasswing, while Fable 5 launched generally available.

Zac FrulloniJune 23, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

Fable 5 Unavailable: Why Claude Fable 5 Is Down

Claude Fable 5 is unavailable because Anthropic globally suspended it around June 12, 2026 under a U.S. export-control directive. According to reporting, the directive ordered Anthropic to cut off access for any foreign national worldwide, and because the company says it cannot verify every user's nationality in real time, it disabled the model for all customers everywhere rather than selectively.

Zac FrulloniJune 23, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

Fable 5 vs Opus: Claude's Top Two Models Compared

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable widely released model at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, while Opus 4.8 sits one tier below at exactly half that price, but as of June 2026 Fable 5 is globally suspended, so Opus 4.8 is the model you can actually run today. In other words, Fable 5 wins on raw ceiling, yet Opus 4.8 wins on availability and cost, which makes Opus 4.8 the practical pick right now.

Zac FrulloniJune 23, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

FastMCP: The Python Framework for Building MCP Servers

FastMCP is the Python framework for building MCP servers and clients, letting you turn any Python function into an AI-accessible tool with a single decorator. As of July 2026 the project sits at version 3.4.3 with 26,000 GitHub stars, its 1.0 API is what ships inside the official MCP Python SDK, and its maintainers report that it powers a large majority of MCP servers in the wild.

Zac FrulloniJuly 7, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

How to Find MCP Servers From Inside Claude Code

To find MCP servers from inside Claude Code, install the Remote OpenClaw MCP server with claude mcp add remoteopenclaw -- npx -y remoteopenclaw , then ask your agent something like "find me an MCP server for postgres." It searches the Remote OpenClaw directory of 13,870+ MCP servers, 4,384+ agent skills, and thousands of plugins, and returns names, descriptions, links, and ready-to-paste install commands ranked by stars and installs — no browser needed.

Zac FrulloniJuly 1, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

The First 5 Founder Tasks to Hand to an AI Chief of Staff

The first five founder tasks to hand to an AI chief of staff are inbox triage, daily priorities, follow-up management, meeting preparation, and status summaries. Those tasks are repetitive, high-frequency, and expensive to keep doing manually when the founder is also running product, sales, and execution.

Zac FrulloniApril 15, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

GPU Optimization Guide for Ollama Models in OpenClaw

If you are running Ollama models locally for OpenClaw, your GPU is the bottleneck that determines everything: which models you can run (see the best Ollama models for coding ), how much context you can hold, how fast your agent responds, and whether your system stays stable under load. Most operators set up Ollama, pull a model, and never think about GPU optimization — and then wonder why their agent feels slow or starts dropping context mid-session.

Claude Market TeamApril 6, 2026

Integration Guide5 min read

Gmail MCP Skill: Inbox Triage, Drafts, and Email Workflows

Email remains the backbone of business communication, but managing it manually is a time sink. The Gmail MCP skill on OpenClaw Bazaar connects your OpenClaw agent to the Gmail API so it can triage your inbox, draft replies, search for messages, manage labels, and trigger workflows based on incoming emails -- all through natural conversation in your preferred messaging channel.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Model Setup Guide5 min read

Using Google Gemini With OpenClaw Bazaar Skills: Setup and Optimization Guide

Google Gemini occupies a unique position in the OpenClaw Bazaar ecosystem. While Claude and GPT dominate the skill compatibility charts, Gemini offers two capabilities that no other provider matches: a one-million-token context window and native multimodal processing across images, audio, video, and PDFs. For skills that deal with large documents or mixed media, Gemini is not just an alternative — it is the best option available.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Comparison8 min read

Free vs Paid OpenClaw Skills: What's the Difference and When to Pay

The OpenClaw Bazaar lists both free and paid skills side by side. If you have been browsing the directory, you have probably wondered why some skills cost money when so many excellent ones are free. The answer is not as simple as "paid equals better." Each model has strengths, and the right choice depends on your situation, your budget, and how critical the skill's domain is to your work.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team29 March 2026

Business7 min read

The Future of AI-Assisted Development: 2026 and Beyond

Software development is in the middle of its most significant transformation since the invention of the integrated development environment. AI-assisted coding moved from novelty to necessity in under three years, and the pace is accelerating. As we look at where things stand in 2026 and where they are heading, several trends stand out — each one building on the others to reshape how software gets built.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team29 March 2026

Guide9 min read

Your First 72 Hours With OpenClaw: The Setup Guide Everyone Skips

This is the foundation. Skip nothing here, because every subsequent step depends on a clean installation.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Buying Guide4 min read

Founder Ops vs Hiring a VA: What Should You Do First?

Founder Ops is the better first move when the work is repetitive, digital, and recurring enough to standardize, while hiring a VA is the better first move when the job depends on human judgment, live coordination, and messy exception handling. The smartest first decision is therefore based on workflow shape, not on whether software or people sound more impressive.

Zac FrulloniApril 15, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Free Tools6 min read

Free AI Tools: Which Ones Are Good Enough to Start With

Free AI Tools are good enough to start with when the goal is evaluation, small internal workflows, or learning how the operator should behave. If you want the builder path, begin in the skills hub and pair it with free tooling selectively; if you already know you need a finished workflow, skip free experimentation and go straight to the marketplace .

Zac FrulloniMay 17, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Model Setup Guide6 min read

Every Free AI Model You Can Use With OpenClaw Bazaar Skills in 2026

You do not need to spend a dollar on API fees to run marketplace skills from OpenClaw Bazaar. Between local models through Ollama, free cloud tiers from Google and Groq, and community-supported models on OpenRouter, there are enough free options to power a fully functional skill-based agent at zero ongoing cost.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Guide8 min read

The Future of AI Agents: Predictions for 2026-2030

The future of AI agents through 2030 is likely defined by three shifts: agents that see and hear (multimodal), agents that remember across sessions (persistent memory), and agents that work in teams ( multi-agent systems ). As of April 2026, these trends are already in early production, with Anthropic's computer use capabilities, OpenAI's Operator, and Google's Project Astra demonstrating what the next generation of agents will look like.

Claude Market Team8 April 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Gemini CLI vs Claude Code in 2026: Which One Should You Reach For?

Gemini CLI and Claude Code look similar from a distance because both live in the terminal and both promise agentic help. But their center of gravity is different enough that you should not choose them based only on social media energy or model fandom.

Zac FrulloniApril 26, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Gemma 4

Gemma 4 is Google's April 2026 family of open-weight multimodal models. The official launch material and model cards describe four sizes: E2B, E4B, 26B A4B, and 31B, with Apache 2.0 licensing and context windows from 128K to 256K.

Zac FrulloniApril 15, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

How to Run Gemma 4 with OpenClaw on Ollama (Free Local AI)

Gemma 4 is Google DeepMind's latest open-source language model family, released on April 2, 2026 . It represents a significant step forward from Gemma 3, with improved instruction following, better multilingual support, and a new Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture in the 26B variant that delivers large-model quality at small-model speed.

Claude Market TeamBy Zac Frulloni · April 6, 2026

Integration Guide4 min read

GitHub MCP Skill: Automated Code Reviews, Issues, and PR Summaries

Code review bottlenecks, unorganized issue backlogs, and missed security advisories are problems every development team faces. The GitHub MCP skill on OpenClaw Bazaar connects your OpenClaw agent directly to the GitHub API, enabling automated code reviews, issue management, repository monitoring, and release note generation.

OpenClaw Bazaar Team1 April 2026

Guide5 min read

Glama vs Remote OpenClaw: Which MCP Directory in 2026?

The main difference between Glama and Remote OpenClaw is scope. Glama is a deep MCP-server registry with 60,000+ servers and a management gateway that proxies, logs, and secures them, while Remote OpenClaw is a broader agent-tooling directory of 13,000+ MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins across Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes with a copy-paste install command per listing. Choose Glama if you want the largest raw registry plus a gateway; choose Remote OpenClaw if you want servers, skills, and plugins together with simple, client-specific installs.

Zac FrulloniJuly 23, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide6 min read

GLM-5.1 on OpenClaw: Setup, Benchmarks, and What Changed

GLM-5.1 is Z.ai's (formerly Zhipu AI) latest open-source model, released on April 7, 2026, scoring 58.4 on SWE-bench Pro — a new state-of-the-art result that outperforms GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on that benchmark. The model improves coding performance 28% over GLM-5 through post-training optimization alone, using the same 744-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture. For the complete GLM model lineup, see our Best GLM Models for OpenClaw guide.

Zac FrulloniApril 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

GLM-5 on OpenClaw: Setup Guide, Benchmarks, and When to Use It

GLM-5 is the flagship large language model from Zhipu AI, a Beijing-based AI research lab that has been building the GLM (General Language Model) series since 2022. Released in February 2026 under the MIT license, GLM-5 is one of the largest open-weight Mixture of Experts models publicly available — 744 billion total parameters with 40 billion active per inference pass.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Integration Guide8 min read

Best Google Calendar Skills for OpenClaw Scheduling

The best Google Calendar skill for OpenClaw scheduling in 2026 is the Calendar Core skill, because every other scheduling skill on the marketplace builds on the OAuth 2.0 connection and read-write calendar access it provides. Install Calendar Core first, then layer the Daily Briefing, Meeting Prep, and Conflict Detection skills on top as your needs grow. This guide ranks the calendar skills in the Remote OpenClaw marketplace and shows how to assemble them into a complete scheduling stack.

Zac Frulloni1 April 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

GPT-4o Context Window: What 128K Tokens Actually Means for Agent Builders

A 128K context window sounds like permission to stuff everything into one request. In practice, that usually makes an agent worse. Large context is useful, but only when you decide what belongs in the working context, what should be summarized, and what should stay in durable memory instead.

Zac FrulloniApril 26, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.4 on OpenClaw: Setup and Configuration Guide

OpenAI's GPT-5 generation arrived in two waves. GPT-5.3 (internally codenamed Codex) launched in February 2026 as a coding-focused model. GPT-5.4 followed one month later in March 2026 as the full general-purpose flagship, shipping with five distinct variants to cover different price and performance tiers.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

GPT-OSS 20B on OpenClaw: OpenAI's Free Open-Weight Model

GPT-OSS 20B is OpenAI's first open-weight model, released in August 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. After years of keeping all model weights proprietary, OpenAI entered the open-source arena with a model that was deliberately designed to compete with Llama, Qwen, and other community favorites.

Claude Market TeamApril 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide5 min read

Grok + OpenClaw for Build in Public: Founder Signal or DIY?

If you want to use Grok with OpenClaw for build-in-public work, Founder Signal is the cleaner buy than a DIY social bot. It solves the specific workflow of founder presence and signal capture instead of forcing you to invent that operator role from scratch.

Zac FrulloniApril 18, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Can You Use Grok With OpenClaw? 2026 Guide

Yes, you can use Grok with OpenClaw, and OpenClaw now documents a bundled xAI provider path for Grok models. As of April 2026, the relevant questions are not whether Grok works at all, but which Grok model you want, how xAI billing behaves, and whether Grok fits your workflow better than your other provider options.

Zac FrulloniApril 18, 2026

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent Blank Slate Mode: What It Is and When to Use It

Hermes Agent blank slate mode is a run mode that starts the agent from a completely clean context — no preloaded memory, no carried-over project state, and no installed skills — so it tackles a task from scratch in an isolated environment. Instead of inheriting everything Hermes has accumulated from past sessions, the agent begins with only the system prompt and the task you give it, which makes the run reproducible, predictable, and easy to reason about.

Zac FrulloniJune 24, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

How Much Does Hermes Agent Cost to Run in 2026?

Hermes Agent costs between $5 and $80 per month to run, depending on your VPS provider, LLM model choice, and usage volume. The software itself is free and open source — your ongoing expenses are hosting (as low as $4/month) and LLM API calls ($2-60/month depending on the model).

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Desktop: Run Hermes on Your Machine

Hermes Agent runs natively on your own desktop on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and Nous Research ships an official desktop app you launch with the single command hermes desktop . Running Hermes locally means the agent, its persistent memory, and all your data stay on your machine instead of a remote server, which is why many people run it on a home PC, a laptop, or a dedicated Mac Mini rather than a VPS.

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Roadmap 2026: Features, Updates, and What's Next

The Hermes Agent ecosystem has grown from zero to 80+ tracked projects in under 10 weeks, with community-built skill hubs, orchestration dashboards, mobile clients, and cross-platform skill marketplaces now operational as of April 2026. This article covers the ecosystem roadmap: what operators (not core developers) should expect from skills, plugins, integrations, and tooling throughout 2026. For the core development roadmap covering releases and version features, see our Hermes development roadmap 2026 .

Zac FrulloniApril 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Docker Compose: Self-Host Setup Guide

To self-host Hermes Agent with Docker Compose, pull the nousresearch/hermes-agent image, run the gateway run command, and mount your host ~/.hermes directory to /opt/data inside the container so config, memory, sessions, and skills persist across restarts. Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source (MIT-licensed) self-improving AI agent, and the official repository ships a working docker-compose.yml with both a gateway service and an optional dashboard service that you can adapt in a few minutes.

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent Docker Setup: One-Click Template vs Manual Install (2026)

Hermes Agent Docker setup comes down to two real paths in 2026: a one-click VPS template that deploys the container for you, or a manual docker run on any server you already control. Docker is the recommended way to run Hermes Agent on a VPS because it isolates the agent from the host and turns updates into a single image pull, per Hostinger's official tutorial; the native curl installer remains the right call only for laptops and dev machines. This guide covers both paths, the tradeoffs Hostinger's docs will not decide for you, env var handling inside containers, and how to run multiple agents side by side.

Zac FrulloniJuly 10, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Building in Public Without Managing Posts

Founder Signal is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for building in public without managing posts manually but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle building in public without managing posts manually, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Coding Sessions That Survive Disconnects

Session Supervisor is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for coding sessions that survive disconnects but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle coding sessions that survive disconnects, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Content Repurposing and Posting

Muse is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for content repurposing and posting but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle content repurposing and posting, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Founder Email, Follow-Ups, and Priorities

Atlas 2 is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for founder email, follow-ups, and daily priorities but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle founder email, follow-ups, and daily priorities, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Long-Running Multi-Agent Dev Workflows

Persistent Dev Orchestrator is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for long-running multi-agent dev workflows but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle long-running multi-agent dev workflows, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Persistent Memory That Actually Holds Up

Operator Memory Stack is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for persistent memory that actually holds up but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle persistent memory that actually holds up, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Personal Admin and Daily Briefings

Compass is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for personal admin and daily briefings but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle personal admin and daily briefings, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for Sales Prospecting and Follow-Up

Scout is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for sales prospecting and follow-up but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle sales prospecting and follow-up, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Hermes Buyer Guides6 min read

Hermes Agent for YouTube Research and Content Repurposing

YouTube Pro Toolkit is the better first move if you came to Hermes Agent for YouTube research and content repurposing but the real need is a working workflow, not another architecture project. Hermes can absolutely handle YouTube research and content repurposing, but the time sink is still workflow design, iteration, and maintenance after the runtime is already installed.

Zac FrulloniApril 21, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent on GitHub: Setup and First Run

Hermes Agent is distributed as an open-source project on GitHub, so the fastest way to get it is to clone the repository, install its dependencies, add a single model API key (Claude, GLM, or any OpenAI-compatible provider), and run the agent's start command. This guide walks through finding the repo, installing it, configuring a key, running your first autonomous task, and the basic config (skills and memory) you will touch first.

Zac FrulloniJune 24, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

How to Run Hermes Agent on a Hostinger VPS (One-Click, ~10 Minutes)

Hermes Agent on a Hostinger VPS is a roughly 10-minute job in 2026: pick the KVM 2 plan ($8.79/mo with the summer sale, up to 70% off), select the Hermes Agent template at checkout, and Hostinger deploys the whole thing as a Docker container before you finish your coffee. Start here: the one-click Hermes Agent template . The rest of this guide covers the plan decision, the deploy flow, the setup wizard, Telegram, and what to do in your first hour, based on Hostinger's official docs and the July 2026 community walkthroughs.

Zac FrulloniJuly 10, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Kanban: Visual Task Boards Guide

The Hermes Agent Kanban is a built-in, durable task board where one or more Hermes agents pick up work, move it through columns, and finish it autonomously. According to the official Hermes Kanban docs , tasks flow through the states triage → todo → ready → running → blocked → done , and all state is stored locally in a SQLite database at ~/.hermes/kanban.db .

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent MCP Integration: How to Use Model Context Protocol

Hermes Agent supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) natively, allowing the agent to connect to external tool servers for GitHub, databases, file systems, and custom APIs through a standardized interface. As of Hermes Agent v0.7.0 (released April 3, 2026), MCP integration includes automatic server discovery, dynamic tool updates, and support for both stdio and HTTP server types.

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

Hermes Agent + mem0: Persistent Memory Setup Guide

You add persistent long-term memory to Hermes Agent with mem0 by calling mem0's add() after each exchange and its search() before each prompt, layering a portable, vector-backed memory store on top of Hermes' built-in recall. mem0 (github.com/mem0ai/mem0) is an open-source, Apache 2.0 memory layer for AI agents that extracts durable facts from conversations with an LLM, stores them as searchable embeddings, and returns concise, relevant context across sessions. This guide explains what mem0 is, why operators pair it with Hermes Agent, how the memory pipeline works, and how mem0 compares to Hermes' built-in SQLite FTS5 memory.

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

Hermes Agent Memory System Explained: How Persistent Memory Works

Hermes Agent uses a dual memory architecture consisting of bounded local files (MEMORY.md and USER.md) and optional external providers like Honcho for unbounded cross-session user modeling. Unlike most AI agents that forget everything between sessions, Hermes persists knowledge across conversations, curates what it remembers through agent-driven summarization, and can search its own past conversations using FTS5 full-text search over SQLite. As of April 2026, the system ships with 8 external memory provider plugins alongside its built-in memory.

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide5 min read

Why Isn't My Hermes Agent Picking Up New Skills?

If your Hermes Agent is not picking up new skills, the most common cause is that skills are discovered at startup — so a skill added mid-session will not appear until you restart the agent. The next most common causes are a malformed SKILL.md , a description too weak for the agent to match, a disabled skill, or a body that exceeds the ~5,000-token guidance. This guide walks through each fix in order.

Zac FrulloniJuly 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent OpenWebUI Integration Setup Guide

Open WebUI is a self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible chat interface that you can place in front of an LLM endpoint, and you can use it alongside Hermes Agent when you route through an OpenAI-compatible bridge rather than Hermes itself. Hermes Agent does not natively expose an HTTP or OpenAI-compatible API server, so a direct "point Open WebUI at Hermes" integration is not officially documented — the practical pattern is to point Open WebUI at the same model endpoint Hermes uses (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, or your own server) and keep Hermes' agentic work in its own surface. This guide covers what Open WebUI is, why operators pair it, how the connection actually works, and how Open WebUI compares to the official Hermes WebUI.

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Persistent Memory: Methods That Survive Restarts

Hermes Agent persists memory across restarts through three built-in mechanisms — bounded markdown files (MEMORY.md and USER.md), a SQLite session database with FTS5 full-text search, and 8 pluggable external memory providers introduced in v0.7.0. Every method writes to disk or cloud, so nothing is lost when the process stops. The right configuration depends on whether you need simple recall, semantic search, or deep user modeling.

Zac FrulloniApril 7, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Security: 7 Things to Lock Down Before You Connect Real Accounts

Hermes Agent security rests on one assumption: sooner or later your agent will read something malicious, so the damage is decided by what you gave it access to beforehand. Before connecting email, GitHub, or anything with a credit card behind it, lock down seven things: provider spend limits, prompt injection defenses, least-privilege tool access, dedicated accounts for the agent, named API keys, secrets stored via hermes config set instead of chat, and a firewalled VPS you reach over Tailscale. This is the same disclosure-first checklist popularized in Tech with Tim's Hermes course, adapted for a self-hosted deployment in July 2026.

Zac FrulloniJuly 10, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

How to Self-Host Hermes Agent on a $5 VPS

Self-hosting Hermes Agent on a $5/month VPS gives you a fully autonomous AI agent with persistent memory, a built-in learning loop, and multi-platform messaging — all running on hardware you control. As of April 2026, the minimum viable setup requires a 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM VPS, Docker, and an API key for your chosen LLM provider.

Zac FrulloniApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

How to install Hermès agent?

Install Hermès agent with curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash . As of April 2026, the official installation guide says Git is the only manual prerequisite because the installer handles the rest of the default setup path for Linux, macOS, and WSL2.

Zac FrulloniApril 15, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

Hermes Agent Skills: How to Create and Manage Custom Skills

Hermes Agent skills are procedural memory — reusable capabilities that the agent creates from experience and improves through continued use. After completing a complex task involving 5 or more tool calls, the agent can autonomously generate a structured SKILL.md file capturing the procedure, pitfalls, and verification steps. This self-improving loop is the core differentiator of Hermes Agent's architecture: the more you use it, the better it gets at recurring tasks.

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

Hermes Agent Skills Hub: Find and Install Skills

The Hermes Agent skills hub is the registry where you browse, search, inspect, and install reusable capabilities for the agent, built on the agentskills.io open standard. In Hermes Agent, you reach it from the command line with hermes skills browse or in chat by typing /skills , then install any skill with a single command like hermes skills install official/migration/openclaw-migration .

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent Telegram Bot Setup Guide

Hermes gateway Telegram setup takes five steps: create a bot through BotFather, get your user ID, run hermes gateway setup , paste your credentials, and start the gateway. Once connected, you can chat with your AI agent from any device, send voice memos that get auto-transcribed, receive scheduled task results, and use the agent in group chats — all through the Telegram messaging gateway built on python-telegram-bot.

Zac FrulloniApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

6 Hermes Agent Use Cases That Justify Running It 24/7

Hermes agent use cases that justify 24/7 uptime all share one trait: they depend on the agent being awake when you are not. The six below are the ones operators keep converging on in 2026: long builds driven by /goal and metaprompting, daily kanban triage, competitor technical teardowns via browser control, a browsable memory wiki, a Tailscale multi-device administrator, and the 9am priority prompt. None of them work on a laptop that sleeps, which is why the standard setup is the one-click Hermes Agent template on a Hostinger VPS (affiliate link, up to 70% off in the summer sale, KVM 2 at $8.79/mo).

Zac FrulloniJuly 10, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent vs AutoGPT: Which Autonomous Agent Is Better?

Hermes Agent is the better choice for always-on deployments that benefit from persistent memory and self-improvement over time; AutoGPT is stronger for structured, goal-driven workflow automation with its visual flow editor and plugin marketplace. The key difference: Hermes Agent learns from experience and gets measurably better after 10-20 similar tasks, while AutoGPT restarts from baseline each session but excels at orchestrating complex multi-step workflows through its platform UI.

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent vs Claude: AI Agent Platform vs AI Model Compared

Hermes Agent is an AI agent platform that runs autonomously with persistent memory and self-improving skills. Claude is an AI model built by Anthropic that powers conversations, coding, and analysis. They are not competitors — Hermes uses Claude as one of its model providers, and Claude benefits from Hermes's agent architecture to run continuously. As of April 2026, Hermes Agent has over 57,000 GitHub stars and supports Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 through the Anthropic API .

Zac FrulloniApril 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Agent vs Cline: Which AI Agent Should You Use?

Hermes Agent is a general-purpose AI agent with persistent memory and self-improving skills, while Cline is an autonomous coding agent that runs inside VS Code. They solve fundamentally different problems: Hermes handles broad automation across messaging, research, scheduling, and personal workflows; Cline handles code generation, file editing, terminal commands, and browser testing within an IDE. As of April 2026, Hermes Agent has over 33,000 GitHub stars and Cline has over 58,000 — both are open source under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses respectively.

Claude Market TeamApril 11, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide12 min read

Hermes Agent vs Paperclip AI: Which AI Agent Platform to Choose?

Hermes Agent is a self-improving single agent with persistent memory and a skills system, while Paperclip is a multi-agent orchestration platform that coordinates teams of AI agents as a virtual company. They solve different problems: Hermes gives you one deeply personalized agent that learns over time; Paperclip gives you an org chart of agents with budget enforcement and task coordination. As of April 2026, Hermes Agent has over 57,000 GitHub stars and Paperclip has over 42,000 — both are open source and free to self-host.

Zac FrulloniApril 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

Hermes Agent Web UI: Browser Dashboard Setup Guide

The Hermes Agent web UI is a local browser dashboard you open by running hermes dashboard , which starts a web server and loads http://127.0.0.1:9119 on your machine. It is a point-and-click admin surface for the same self-hosted Hermes Agent you would otherwise drive from the terminal or a messaging gateway, and according to the official Nous Research documentation it runs entirely on localhost so no data leaves your computer by default.

Zac FrulloniJune 29, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide7 min read

Hermes Development Roadmap 2026: Upcoming Features and Timeline

Hermes Agent has shipped 9 major releases in under 10 weeks since its February 2026 launch by Nous Research , reaching v0.9.0 as of April 13, 2026. The core development roadmap for the rest of 2026 focuses on three priorities: mobile and cross-platform reach, a pluggable context engine for advanced operators, and the stability milestones needed to reach v1.0.

Zac FrulloniApril 13, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide10 min read

Hermes Persistent Memory: Architecture and Implementation Guide

Hermes persistent memory operates through three distinct layers: frozen system prompt memory (MEMORY.md and USER.md injected before every session), episodic skill memory (structured markdown records of past task outcomes), and session search via a SQLite FTS5 database that indexes every conversation the agent has ever had. These layers work on different timescales — seconds, hours, and weeks — and developers building on the Hermes framework need to understand how each one stores, compresses, and retrieves context to build effective agent applications.

Zac FrulloniApril 7, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Hermes vs OpenClaw for Personal Ops and Daily Briefings

This query sounds small, but it is a real buying decision. Personal ops is where many people first try to make an agent useful: briefings, inbox help, reminders, and life admin. The wrong first route here creates more setup than relief.

Zac FrulloniApril 22, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide4 min read

Hermes vs OpenClaw for Sales Automation: Build It Yourself or Buy Scout?

Sales buyers do not really lose deals because they picked the wrong AI brand. They lose because research, follow-up, and next-step discipline stay disconnected. That is why this comparison should end in one concrete route, not just a model preference.

Zac FrulloniApril 22, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide8 min read

Hermes Workspace on Hostinger: What It Is and When to Pick It Over Hermes Agent

Hermes Workspace is an open-source web UI that turns the Hermes AI agent by Nous Research into a full command center, combining multi-model chat, persistent memory, a 100+ skill catalog, an integrated browser terminal, and a Conductor for orchestrating parallel sub-agents in one self-hosted interface. Pick the Workspace one-click app when you want to drive your agent from a browser or phone; pick the plain Hermes Agent template when you mostly talk to your agent through messaging apps like Telegram or WhatsApp.

Zac FrulloniJuly 10, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni

Guide9 min read

How to Set Up OpenClaw on Hostinger VPS: Complete Step-by-Step Guide [2026]

Setting up OpenClaw on a VPS gives you a 24/7 AI assistant that connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack — and Hostinger is the fastest way to get there. Their KVM2 plan at $8.99/month gives you dedicated resources, NVMe storage, and either a 1-click Docker template or full SSH access for manual setup.

Claude Market TeamMarch 2026

Guide4 min read

How ACPX Controls Codex and Claude via Agents

The simplest way to understand ACPX is that it gives you a runtime and control surface around agent backends that would otherwise feel more manual and brittle. That is why its recent release notes spend so much time on turn handles, persistent session reuse, history preservation, and runtime controls.

Zac FrulloniApril 25, 2026 · By Zac Frulloni