OpenClaw! What is your opinion on this and others like it?

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You can actually do things also with the other AIs, but what if they hallucinate or decide to disobey?
See.... this is what I was afraid of without actually knowing about this specific danger. I'm afraid that f*cker will call the feds or turn me into the tax authorities. Tomorrow, it can, based on any of my citizenship, report my income to the respective mafia of the parasitic country issuing a slab of paper they label as "passport", or just send my clients all my price list and vendor contacts. This worries me, so is there a way to contain this f*cker?
 
Privacy : Venice ai doing good work Venice End-to-End Encrypted AI, don't give or share any sensitive information of any kind.

Memory : GitHub is full of academic and tech essays to fix it.
OpenViking: The Context Database for AI Agents
by Volcengine (ByteDance's cloud platform)
GitHub repo. GitHub - volcengine/OpenViking: OpenViking is an open-source context database designed specifically for AI Agents(such as openclaw). OpenViking unifies the management of context (memory, resources, and skills) that Agents need through a file system paradigm, enabling hierarchical context delivery and self-evolving.

Security : Sandboxing actually helps but there is no fully protected system at all.

Budget : like kimi 2.6 is showing good results. Or OpenRouter. Etc..

I have to mention one tweet : I tracked 430 hours of Claude Code usage. 73% was wasted on these 9 patterns.
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

Link one. Hermes Agent | OpenRouter

Link two. Hermes Agent — The Agent That Grows With You

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I prefer Hermes Agent over OpenClaw.

Rather not cheap out and just run GPT 5.5 Medium/High. If you want to save, run OpenClaw with OAuth into the $200 Codex sub.
 
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See.... this is what I was afraid of without actually knowing about this specific danger. I'm afraid that f*cker will call the feds or turn me into the tax authorities. Tomorrow, it can, based on any of my citizenship, report my income to the respective mafia of the parasitic country issuing a slab of paper they label as "passport", or just send my clients all my price list and vendor contacts.
As you know, they are regularly subpoenaing all LLMs, so the next logical step is “preventive” sharing of personal information with LE.
This worries me, so is there a way to contain this f*cker?
Run it locally?
 
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Just running a model locally does not necessarily mean it cannot reach out to third parties or delete things en masse. Best thing imo is to keep it set so that when it wants to run a command it asks for it to be accepted, and that file writes in the working directory can be edited as it pleases (this way it is less likely to go rogue and outside of the folder, as the only way I can imagine it could break out is by writing a script in the folder and then running it, which then needs your permission).
 
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Privacy : Venice ai doing good work Venice End-to-End Encrypted AI, don't give or share any sensitive information of any kind.

Memory : GitHub is full of academic and tech essays to fix it.
OpenViking: The Context Database for AI Agents
by Volcengine (ByteDance's cloud platform)
GitHub repo. GitHub - volcengine/OpenViking: OpenViking is an open-source context database designed specifically for AI Agents(such as openclaw). OpenViking unifies the management of context (memory, resources, and skills) that Agents need through a file system paradigm, enabling hierarchical context delivery and self-evolving.

Security : Sandboxing actually helps but there is no fully protected system at all.

Budget : like kimi 2.6 is showing good results. Or OpenRouter. Etc..

I have to mention one tweet : I tracked 430 hours of Claude Code usage. 73% was wasted on these 9 patterns.
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

Link one. Hermes Agent | OpenRouter

Link two. Hermes Agent — The Agent That Grows With You

By NOUS RESEARCH
Thank you! This is really helpful!
 
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Run it locally?
Yes, this is what I am trying to do here now. I'm +50% into it already. Here, I can, because I can train/metro around with a few computers, laptops, and smartphones and nobody bats an eye, but what will I do when I travel overseas? 🙄

If I arrive in the EU with +2 laptops and 8 phones, I think I'm f*cked! :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
 
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