What We Build Better Than OpenClaw and Hermes
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Before writing a single line of channel integration code, we spent time studying the two best open-source AI agent frameworks that already solve multi-channel messaging: OpenClaw (TypeScript, 25+ channels) and Hermes Agent by Nous Research (Python, 23+ channels).
They are genuinely good. OpenClaw's typed plugin interface is clean. Hermes's canonical message struct is exactly the right abstraction. Both projects handle Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS, and email in ways that work.
So rather than build from scratch, we started with a question: what do they do that we should adopt directly, what do they do that we should improve, and what are they not designed to handle at all?
This post is the honest answer to that question.