#openclaw

Beginner tutorial: first prepare Claude Code, a Codex login, or an API key. On Windows, choose the Windows Hub installer or a one-line PowerShell command. On Mac, choose OpenClaw.app or a terminal command. After finishing the onboarding wizard and setting it to run in the background, verify with gateway status and the control panel. Includes 1 ready-to-copy troubleshooting prompt.

Hermes Agent, an open-source project from Nous Research, is the same kind of product as OpenClaw but works quite differently: it creates skills on its own from conversations, improves them as it's used, remembers you across sessions, and can dispatch sub-agents to work in parallel. In our testing it ran alongside OpenClaw and could revive it when something broke. MIT licensed.