How to migrate from hermes to openclaw?

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Bobby · Answer

Hi there, Could you share a bit more context about your setup? Are you migrating between these as AI agent frameworks, LLM backends, or something else entirely? If you are running this on DigitalOcean’s inference platform, the migration is usually straightforward since both use OpenAI-compatible endpoints, meaning you mostly just swap the model name and adjust any framework-specific config. More tha happy to give more specific guidance once I know what you are working with.

KFSys · Answer

Heya, Happy to help, but could you share a bit more so the advice is actually useful? “Hermes” and “OpenClaw” can mean a few different things, so knowing: What each one is in your setup (a model, an agent framework, a self-hosted tool?) Roughly what you’ve built on Hermes today (agents, prompts, tools/function calls, memory, integrations) Where you’re running it (local, a Droplet, App Platform) would let folks give you real steps instead of guesswork. In the meantime, here’s the generic playbook that applies to almost any agent-framework migration: Inventory what you have. List your agents, system prompts, tool/function definitions, any stored memory or vector data, and external integrations (APIs, webhooks, keys). Map concepts across. Find the equivalent of each Hermes piece in OpenClaw. Prompts and tool definitions usually port over with light reformatting; the wiring around them is what changes. Move the data. Migrate any conversation history, memory, or embeddings into whatever store the new setup uses. This is the part people underestimate. Re-point your keys and integrations. Model provider keys, env vars, and any external services need re-configuring on the new side. Run both in parallel and test before cutting over. Keep Hermes live until OpenClaw handles your real workloads correctly, so you have a fallback. If you drop a few details about what the two are and what you’ve built, I can turn this into concrete steps for your case.

alexdo · Answer

Hi there, adding to what Bobby and KFSys already asked, this is very likely Hermes Agent (Nous Research’s self-hosted, self-improving personal agent) to OpenClaw (the TypeScript gateway framework with the SKILL.md/ClawHub ecosystem), since those two get compared constantly and are the natural pair someone would be migrating between. If that’s right, there’s a real structural mismatch worth knowing before you start, beyond the generic inventory-and-cutover playbook above. Hermes’s core feature is that it writes and refines its own skills autonomously from what you’ve done with it, plus a user model (Honcho) that deepens over time. OpenClaw’s skills are static SKILL.md files with YAML frontmatter that you or the community write and version in Git. There’s no direct equivalent on the OpenClaw side for Hermes’s self-improving, autonomously generated skills or its user model, so that part doesn’t port over mechanically, you’d be manually rewriting whatever Hermes learned into static SKILL.md files by hand. Also worth knowing: the automated migration tooling only goes the other direction. Hermes has a hermes claw migrate command that imports an OpenClaw setup into Hermes, not the reverse, so for your direction specifically you’re doing the inventory-map-move steps KFSys outlined manually rather than with a built-in tool. If Hermes and OpenClaw aren’t actually what you mean here, the generic playbook above still applies, just let them know what you’re actually working with. Regards

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