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Hermes Agent gains free, ultra-fast Perplexity web search for all Nous Portal tiers
This is the clearest product win of the last 48 hours: it removes a major operational and cost barrier, ships with official video proof, and immediately raises the baseline usefulness of every Hermes instance. Bot Screen remains a strong runner-up for visibility and control, but the search integration is the broader daily unlock for the community.
Nous Research announced that web search in Hermes Agent is now fast and free. Perplexity built Fast Search specifically for agents (p50 latency 160 ms, p95 230 ms). It is the default for all Nous Portal subscribers across tiers—no separate API key or extra bill required.
Detailed operational write-up of migrating from OpenClaw to Hermes, including aligning 47 cron jobs, verifying old processes/ports are gone, and the practical “scary” steps. Community commentary continues to position Hermes as a more polished evolution of the OpenClaw-style agent pattern.
Meta’s Muse agent is described as built from scratch but heavily inspired by OpenClaw. Concurrent community reports note that requesting a file export from Muse returned a 6.8 GB dump containing Linux root filesystem, SSH keys, and internal docs. Parallel discussion of OpenClaw’s own history with overly broad export behavior and a recent large deletion of test code (~400k lines) with minimal coverage impact.
Nous Research shipped Bot Screen for Hermes Desktop. You can now stream any bot’s screen (browser, terminal, apps) in real time, watch the agent work live, take control for 2FA/CAPTCHA/login steps, then hand the session back seamlessly. Works for remote/always-on gateways. Full docs and a detailed 5-min walkthrough by @tonbistudio available.
Official OpenClaw release 2026.9.6. Highlights include support for Opus 5.5 / GPT-6 Sol/Luna / Grok 4.7, managed updates, restart recovery, 30-day usage stats, GitHub reader, remote files/memory/skills, live meeting notes, and decision models (Jev + ONNX). 2,614 PRs from 351 contributors.
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