How I “migrated” my AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes and collected all the pitfalls along the way (so you don’t have to)
Summary
This article walks through moving an AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes and documents the issues encountered during the migration. It covers environment setup on Ubuntu, authentication with OpenAI and OpenRouter, configuration changes, and data transfer from the old workspace. It also details enabling integrations for Telegram, Google Workspace, image generation, file processing, and web search. The author highlights several pitfalls such as PEP 668 package handling, gateway setup, DNS and Caddy configuration, and media path restrictions. The piece ends with a checklist of functions to verify after migration and notes that Hermes can replace most of the OpenClaw workflow.
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