AI Agents

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• When should Claude Code use a subagent?

  A subagent is a helper Claude Code sends off to do one focused job and report back. When that saves you a cluttered session, and when it only burns more of your allowance.

• Will a scheduled AI task run if my computer is asleep?

  It depends where the task runs. ChatGPT tasks and Claude's cloud tasks do not need your computer. Claude Desktop tasks and /loop do, and a sleeping laptop skips them.

• Chat window or agent? The one difference that matters

  The app on your phone answers. An agent you install can act: open files, run things, change settings. Same model, different reach. How to tell which you have.

• Skills: teach your coding agent something once

  A Claude Code skill is a short written procedure the agent reads when a job matches. Write one for anything you have explained twice.

• What goes wrong with an always-on agent

  I have run one for months. It fails quietly, loops expensively, forgets, and sometimes does the confident wrong thing. Five failures and how to catch each.

• MCP, decoded

  What is MCP, and what is an MCP server? MCP is the plug standard that lets an AI assistant use a tool like your calendar. The server is the tool's end of the plug.

• Two ways to let AI use your browser

  Two ways to let an AI use a web browser for you. One reads the screen and moves the mouse. The other talks to the browser directly. Which suits a local model.

• What is AI, actually?

  The plain-English guide to prediction, training data and using AI to learn what you do not yet know.

Guides

• Install Hermes Agent on a Mac or Windows (no server needed)

  Hermes Agent now has a desktop app for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11, plus a one-line installer for Windows 10. How to install it, connect a model and know its limits.

• Run Hermes on a VPS (step-by-step)

  Run Hermes Agent on a low-cost VPS: what server you need, what it costs, the official install commands, and how to keep it running after you log out.

• Before you add an MCP server, check what it can do

  Connecting an MCP server hands your AI new powers, sometimes including sending and deleting. A ten-minute check of who made it, what its tools do, and how to take it away again.

• Write your first Claude Code skill for a repeated job

  Stop pasting the same long prompt. Save the procedure once as a skill, run it by name, check it does what you wrote, and delete it when it stops helping.

• Give your agent a memory that survives tomorrow

  Why does an agent forget everything? Memory is a file of short notes it reads before every job and writes after. The smallest version that works.

• Set a spending limit before you leave anything running

  An agent in a loop is an expensive agent, and you find out from the invoice. Every provider has a monthly cap. Set it before the first scheduled job.

Compare

• Hermes vs OpenClaw: which should you use?

  Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: a practical comparison of two open-source AI agents, a straight answer about which suits which kind of person, and where Claude Code fits.

• Grok Bot vs Hermes: which AI worker setup?

  Both run persistent AI bots with roles, tools and scheduled work. One hands you the workers, the other hands you the parts. A practical comparison.

Tools

• Hermes: an AI agent you can run yourself

  Hermes Agent is a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research. It uses tools, remembers things between sessions and keeps working in the background on a machine you control.

• Grok Bot: managed AI workers from xAI

  xAI's managed way to run persistent AI bots with roles, tools and scheduled work, sharing a cloud computer you never have to administer yourself.

• OpenClaw: an alternative open-source agent framework

  Another open-source framework for building AI agents, aimed at people who want to assemble their agent from parts rather than run something ready-made.

Setups

• My current AI setup

  The exact set of tools I use day to day, what each one is for, and what changed when I stopped writing this page from memory and actually checked.