you need to use Hermes RIGHT NOW!! (goodbye OpenClaw!!)

About this video

Chuck explains why he says he switched his agents from OpenClaw to Hermes, the agent harness from Nous Research, after using it for a month, and builds a live example: an IT troubleshooting agent nicknamed Ron Weasley. He installs Hermes on a Hostinger VPS with a one-line command, connects it to a ChatGPT subscription via OpenAI Codex as the model (choosing GPT-5.5 in the demo), and wires up Telegram messaging through BotFather with an allowlist so only approved users can talk to it. He gives five reasons for switching: the project’s vibe and mission, its memory system, the team and origin story, its skill system, and, in his claim, greater stability than OpenClaw. On memory, he shows Hermes writing curated USER.md and MEMORY.md files that load into every new session, with hard size limits he states as 1,375 characters for the user file and 2,200 characters for the memory file, plus a background review he says runs about every 10 turns, and an optional Honcho add-on that builds a longer-term profile of the user. He includes interview comments from cofounder Jeffrey Quesnelle, who says Hermes began as an internal tool months before its release. For skills, Ron is shown creating his own reusable skills after setting up a Twingate client and inventorying a UniFi network, rather than downloading skills from a marketplace, with a Curator feature described as pruning stale skills over time. He also demos Home Assistant control, sub-agents, a dashboard, and a Kanban board, and presents Hermes as growing more capable over time rather than degrading.

Key takeaways

• Hermes is presented as an agent harness that can run on a VPS with a one-line install and use a ChatGPT subscription via Codex as its model.
• Its curated USER.md and MEMORY.md files are size-capped, which Chuck says forces the agent to keep only the most relevant context.
• The headline differentiator is agents creating and refining their own skills from real tasks, instead of relying mainly on a community skill marketplace.
• Chuck claims Hermes has been more stable for him than OpenClaw, including for a non-technical family member’s agent, but this is his personal experience.
• Optional Honcho integration adds longer-term user profiling on top of Hermes’s built-in memory.

Episode details: published May 20, 2026 · 32:39 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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