The agentic rag, wrung out.
The rag for
Nous Research’s 326-story user catalog (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-stories), posted by @NousResearch and already past 2,000 likes and 2,500 bookmarks. It is the clearest “what people actually run” artifact in either ecosystem this week, and it beats the OpenClaw 2026.9.8 patch and the hardware catalog on community pull. Secondary story for the column: Teknium’s open hardware catalog (https://teknium.io/hermes-devices/) the same evening, which is the physical-agent follow-on.
Teknium pointed at the plugins catalog (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins): nearly 500 community mods for capabilities, model providers, memory, and UI. He later clarified only 8 are official/tested. Same window includes a pluggable computer-use backend so TryCUA can be swapped: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/133556
Nous Research published a catalog of 326 user stories at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-stories. Tiles cover 15 categories (dev workflow 77, personal assistant 49, integrations 32, and others) and link back to the original X, Reddit, GitHub, Discord, YouTube, or blog post. Strong examples on the page: zero-token cron via `--script --no-agent`, a local email gatekeeper that hides 2FA and banking mail, and `/rollback` after a destructive git reset.
Paperclip v2026.1001.0: hardened native runner and chat recovery, agent personas across the app, agents as GitHub PR review bots, Railway connector, queued approvals. 77 commits, 8 contributors. Release: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/releases/tag/v2026.1001.0. Related: NetworkChuck’s AI IT department video using Claude Code, Hermes, Codex, and local models under Paperclip roles and human approvals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVf25Rg0Mc).
ClawStation (hosts OpenClaw) reported a real ops trap: npm treats a Node engine mismatch as a warning (EBADENGINE), installs the release anyway, then the binary refuses to start. Symptom is a gateway restart loop, empty journal, 502 at the proxy. Fix is raise Node to the release engines field, not downgrade OpenClaw.
Teknium published a catalog of open-platform hardware and devices Hermes (or any agent) can build on, integrate with, or live inside, with DIY project notes per item. URL: https://teknium.io/hermes-devices/
Priors shipped a skill that lets the assistant check another agent’s repayment record before paying or trusting it, and pay, borrow, or repay inside operator caps. Install: `hermes skills install priors-agents/agent001/skills/priors`. OpenClaw skill is in their hub. Rails are unsecured USDG lines and x402 on Robinhood Chain.
Official v2026.9.8 (43 PRs, 8 contributors named on the post; docs say the same scale). Delegated agent results return to the conversation that asked, once: inline if settled, or a single later delivery. Internal sessions no longer finish on NO_REPLY. Codex catalog processes hold fewer in-memory shell keys. Windows updates retry file locks; macOS npm updates accept aliased install paths. Docs are explicit that GPT-6.1 Sol was prepared (1.05M context, 128k output, 272k active input budget in OpenClaw) and was not complete in this release. Hannes Rudolph confirmed the miss: the bundled Codex CLI is 0.158.0 and needs a newer build. He posted three workarounds (updated ChatGPT app for computer use, force the OpenClaw runtime, or pin a 0.159.1+ Codex binary) and said 2026.9.9 is the fix. Not shipped by end of day.
OpenClaw wired Tencent Hunyuan’s AI-Infra-Guard into ClawScan, the CLI that reviews every skill and plugin uploaded to ClawHub. ClawScan now runs AIG and NVIDIA SkillSpector independently, then an AI judge reads both reports plus the uploaded files. AIG covers nine risk classes, including instruction hijacking, memory poisoning, remote payload execution, unauthorized access, persistence, and insecure dependencies. On a 556-case SkillTrustBench subset, the combined system matched 86.9% of labels and correctly classified 98.6% of malicious cases. Disagreements and confirmed false positives go back to Tencent as regression cases.
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