Migrating my personal AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes

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

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. ...

May 14, 2026 · 7 min · Ben Karciauskas

Building Intelligent Agents with LangGraph and MongoDB: A Deep Dive into Vector-Powered Tool Discovery

When building AI agents, one of the biggest challenges is tool selection—especially as the number of available tools increases. Evidence from OpenAI’s developer community and technical documentation highlights that agents’ tool selection accuracy tends to drop noticeably with larger toolsets, sometimes causing irrelevant or random tools to be invoked even with carefully designed prompts. OpenAI’s internal discussions note a clear decline in single-tool call accuracy and an uptick in failure modes as the system prompt and available tool list grows, with developer complaints of incorrect or unexpected tool choices despite best practices. ...

September 25, 2025 · 6 min · Ben Karciauskas
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