Memory, skills, or files? Where agent context belongs
A practical policy for agent context: stable preferences in memory, reusable procedures in skills, task evidence in files, and earlier decisions in session history.
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Structured agent outputs: reviewer, fixer, arbiter
How the PR reviewer validates agent outputs and reduces them into decisions, and why valid JSON is still a long way from verified correctness.
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Agentic workflows need boring guardrails
A practical approach to agent guardrails: narrow permissions, revision-specific reviews, validated outputs, visible failures, and explicit stopping conditions.
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Building a Hermes-backed GitHub PR reviewer
Inside a small Hermes-backed PR reviewer: signed webhooks, per-commit job identity, worker dispatch, visible failures, and an important queue limitation.
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From OpenClaw to Hermes: why I rebuilt my agent workflow
Why I moved my personal agent workflow from OpenClaw to Hermes, and why repeatable work mattered more to me than another impressive demo.
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Hermes as a personal agent runtime
Hermes can be used as a personal agent runtime: a CLI and messaging-based environment with tools, memory, skills, cron jobs, session search, and subagents for practical engineering workflows. This second post builds on the Hermes/OpenClaw introduction.
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What are Hermes and OpenClaw?
A practical introduction to Hermes and OpenClaw: how OpenClaw helped prove the value of agents close to real engineering work, and how Hermes provides the runtime foundation for durable agent workflows.