OpenClaw and Hermes agree on what an agent is. They disagree on what controls it

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I had Hermes and used it for a while but mostly because it was the easiest to set up and reliable as a vibe coding setup from Telegram/mobile

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<p>I run a team of AI agents on a Mac I bought in 2022. They handle my Slack, run research, draft content, monitor infrastructure, and spawn sub-agents for compound tasks. The

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<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hermes-agent-2026-05-15">Hermes Agent <br /> Challenge</a>.</em></p> <p><a