OpenClaw Blog
Tutorials, tips, and guides for building AI agents with OpenClaw.
How to Create a Personal AI Agent in 10 Minutes (2026 Tutorial)
Practical tutorial: deploy a personal AI agent on Telegram with persistent memory, your choice of model, and a custom system prompt. From zero to working bot in 10 minutes.
11 min readSelf-Hosted AI Agent vs Hosted Hermes: Real Cost & Time Breakdown (2026)
Self-hosting an AI agent on a VPS sounds free, until you tally the hours. Hosted Hermes is $6/mo flat. Here is the actual cost comparison — money, time, uptime, data sovereignty — across both paths.
10 min readWhere to Find Hermes Agent Discussion: Reddit, HN, Discord, GitHub (2026)
Looking for honest user feedback on Hermes Agent? Here is where the real discussion happens — r/LocalLLaMA, r/selfhosted, Hacker News, the Nous Discord — and what to look for in each thread.
9 min readDiscord Developer Portal Just Got an Overhaul — What It Means for AI Bot Builders
Discord rolled out a major Developer Portal and docs revamp in May 2026 with MCP server support, LLMs.txt, Copy-as-Markdown, and reorganized documentation. Here is what changed and why it matters if you build AI bots on Discord.
5 min readAI Agent Conference NYC 2026 — Which Events Matter and How to Make the Trip Pay Back
NYC has a real AI-agent conference circuit now. Which events to attend, what to expect, how to prep, and how to ship without a badge.
5 min readAI Chatbot No Sign Up — The Honest Map of What Actually Exists in 2026
Where to find a real no-sign-up AI chatbot, why most disappoint, and how to deploy one for your own users so they never see a signup screen.
6 min readMedical AI Chatbot in 2026 — What Works, What to Avoid, and How to Deploy One
Medical AI chatbots are useful for triage, intake, booking, and patient communication — and dangerous if they cross into diagnosis. Here is the safe-and-useful playbook.
7 min readCost of AI Chatbot Subscriptions in 2026 — The Honest Pricing Map
AI chatbot subscriptions cluster into four distinct price brackets. Here is what each tier actually gives you, the dollar-per-conversation math, and how to avoid overpaying.
7 min readmem0 vs OpenClaw Memory: Which AI Memory System Should Your Bot Use?
mem0 is the buzzy standalone AI memory layer; OpenClaw ships its own built-in memory and Dreaming. Honest comparison of what each is good at and when to use which.
6 min readDeepSeek V4 vs Kimi K2.6: Which Open-Weight Model to Pick in 2026
A practical head-to-head between DeepSeek V4 (Pro and Flash) and Moonshot Kimi K2.6 for AI agent builders — pricing, context window, coding, Chinese, and which to wire into your bot.
7 min readHermes Agent Now Available on OpenClaw Launch
Nous Research's Hermes Agent is now deployable alongside OpenClaw from the same dashboard, at the same Lite $6 / Pro $20 pricing. Telegram, Discord, and Slack ship today, with built-in web chat and the full Hermes control panel.
4 min readClaude Design Just Launched — What It Means for OpenClaw Users
Anthropic launched Claude Design — a conversational AI tool for prototypes, slides, and visuals. Here is what it overlaps with OpenClaw, what it does not, and how to use both together.
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