What I learned migrating my personal AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Clawdia is now Claudia. The “Claw” pun stopped making sense when I moved her off OpenClaw onto Hermes. That’s the least interesting thing that happened.

Why migrate at all

OpenClaw worked great. That’s the honest answer. I wasn’t fleeing a burning building.

But I’d noticed a few things that were starting to bother me. The memory system felt unreliable mainly because the vault was treated as something you explicitly queried, not something the agent was aware of by default. I’ve written about these frustrations in previous posts, so I won’t rehash them here.

Hermes on Ben Karciauskas

What I learned migrating my personal AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes

Why migrate at all