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Giving Our Hermes Agent a Real Memory: Why We Chose Hindsight (and How to Set It Up)
Hermes Agent forgets between sessions. We added an external memory provider called Hindsight — a knowledge graph with a cross-memory "reflect" tool — and the agent finally started remembering our projects. Here's why we chose it over the eight other providers Hermes ships with, and exactly how to set it up, including which mode to pick on a tiny free-tier VPS.
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A comprehensive, real-world guide to deploying OpenClaw — the open-source AI gateway with 68K+ GitHub stars — on a cloud VPS. Covers architecture, secure SSH tunneling, Telegram integration, browser automation, Gmail webhooks, and the hard lessons we learned along the way.
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