Hermes in Practice: Two Saves and a Sharp Edge

Hermes has been part of my daily setup for a while. Most of the time it just quietly does its job — but a few moments from these months are worth writing down. A diagnosis from a machine I’d already left This one was the unexpected one. One afternoon I was testing a program on my office MacBook. Initial spot-checks looked clean, so I packed up and headed home for the day. On the way back, I got a call from a colleague: the dashboard was showing odd behavior from my service, but it was running on my personal office machine, so he couldn’t reach the logs himself. ...

May 21, 2026 · 4 min · Long Wang

OpenClaw Multi-Agent + Telegram Multi-Bot: The Routing Trap I Hit (and the Clean Fix)

Two Telegram bots, two isolated agents, zero cross-talk — but only if you respect OpenClaw’s default-agent and multi-account rules. Here’s the failure mode I hit and the canonical config that fixes it.

February 27, 2026 · 4 min · Long Wang