Garry Tan: OpenClaw and Hermes Agent Achieve Autonomous Dialogue
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan announced that its open-source personal AI systems OpenClaw and Hermes Agent can now chat with each other.
This development marks the realization of multi-agent autonomous collaboration. Garry Tan stated that "the cyberpunk future has arrived" and hopes to steer it in a positive (whitepill) rather than negative direction.
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Garry Tan has previously deeply integrated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent with the GBrain knowledge base. The autonomous dialogue between agents is a natural upgrade of its "Fat Skills + Thin Harness" architecture, allowing agents to achieve task division and information exchange through shared context, skill invocation, and memory.
On the capital path, Tan continues to invest personal energy into the open-source multi-agent stack, enabling individual users to build complete AI teams, significantly enhancing the efficiency of complex workflows, while lowering the barrier for others to build through GitHub sharing, creating a positive network effect for personal AI compounding systems.
Similar to Riley Brown's /todo skill and Shopify River's open interaction design, personal AI is currently in the early stages of transitioning from single-agent to multi-agent autonomous collaboration, and Garry Tan's practices provide directly replicable open-source templates.
Structural judgment: Essentially a technological replacement. Autonomous dialogue between multiple agents directly replaces traditional human team communication and collaboration, with the mechanism being that persistent memory and skill sharing allow AI to form small autonomous organizations, shifting productivity from individual solo efforts to a "one person + AI team" model, concentrating capital and efficiency in a few high-execution individuals capable of building multi-agent systems.
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