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Microsoft’s public announcement that Autopilot (their always-on Copilot agent) is built on OpenClaw, combined with concrete upstream contributions from the Microsoft team. This is the clearest enterprise validation OpenClaw has received to date and directly accelerates the project’s reliability and policy tooling. It also reinforces the broader thesis that open agent runtimes are becoming the substrate for major platform players.
Microsoft announced Autopilot (formerly Scout), a persistent always-on personal agent for Microsoft 365, explicitly built on OpenClaw. The OpenClaw Foundation highlighted that Microsoft contributors (led by Omar Shahine) have pushed policy conformance, native Windows support, and reliability improvements back upstream. Blog details the bidirectional collaboration.
OpenClaw shipped improved plugin loading with hot reloading. Demo video shows installing Apple PIM live, building plugins on the fly, and explains what developers need to change. Session can “cook” while plugins update without full restarts.
Hermes now supports `/branch` to fork a conversation into a parallel path (or dedicated thread in Discord/Telegram/Slack/Matrix) while preserving original context. Useful for exploring alternatives without polluting the main thread.
Detailed four-step walkthrough from HermesWatcher on turning a Hermes agent into a reliable autonomous worker using cron + Skills + progress files. Example: release-scout job that checks GitHub releases every six hours and produces sourced briefs without human intervention.
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.
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