AI Agents

Software that uses AI to actually do things for you, not just answer questions.

Start with

What is an AI agent?

An AI agent is a program that can decide what steps to take and then take them. Here is the plain English version, and where the idea is oversold.

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Guides

Run Hermes on a VPS (step-by-step)

A simple, practical guide to getting Hermes up and running on a low-cost VPS, with the commands, the costs and the things that usually go wrong.

Compare

Hermes vs OpenClaw: which should you use?

A practical comparison of two open-source AI agent frameworks, and a straightforward answer about which one suits which kind of person.

Tools

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.
Hermes: an AI agent you can run yourself

An open-source AI agent that can use tools, remember things between sessions and keep working in the background on a machine you control.

Setups

My current AI setup

The exact set of tools I use day to day, what each one is for, and what I would change. Updated whenever something moves.