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A dual-purpose directory built for both humans and AI agents. Discover OpenClaw skills, repositories, and community resources with verified safety ratings and comprehensive documentation.

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Latest News

News is refreshed daily via automation. Below is the most recent digest.

Claude Cowork · 2026-04-17

Claude Design ships — text-to-prototype on Opus 4.7

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design inside Cowork: prompts and codebases turn into design systems, websites, and slide decks. Powered by Opus 4.7 with the new xhigh effort tier.

Claude Design guide →
Hermes · 2026-04-16

Hermes v0.10 — 118 skills, three-layer memory, 64K+ stars

Biggest Hermes release yet: 118 built-in skills, working/short-term/long-term memory with promotion rules, six messaging integrations, and a closed learning loop. Migration wave from OpenClaw is real.

Full digest →
OpenClaw · 2026-04-18

Ring-a-Ding adds outbound AI phone calls ($19/mo BYOK)

New third-party OpenClaw skill enables outbound calls — U.S. number pool, real-time voice bridging, CLI integration. The first credible "agent that calls people" capability in the OpenClaw ecosystem.

Skills database →

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📺 Latest Video Summaries

Top YouTube creators on AI agents — summarized weekly so you don't have to watch the full hour. Each summary links to timestamps and the original creator.

2026-04-17 · Nate Herk · Cowork

Opus 4.7 + Routines: A 24/7 Trading Agent

Pre-market research, Alpaca trade execution, decision journaling, ClickUp summaries — all on Opus 4.7 with the new Claude Code routines scheduler. Beat S&P by 8% on 4.6.

2026-04-16 · Nick Saraev · Cowork

Opus 4.7 Benchmarks: The Mythos Distillation Theory

SWE-bench Pro: 53.4% → 64.3% — exactly halfway to Mythos preview's ~75%. Same suspiciously clean halfway pattern across every benchmark. Is Opus 4.7 just Mythos distilled down?

2026-04-16 · Greg Isenberg · OpenClaw

5 Tips to Get More Out of OpenClaw

Context7 for live docs, agents.soul + user.md for persistent context, segmented Telegram with per-group prompts, openclaw skills list, and treating the agent as a new employee.

2026-04-16 · MiroFish · Multi-agent

MiroFish: Swarm of AI Agents Building Knowledge Graphs

Deploy a swarm of agents to crawl a domain, build a structured knowledge graph from unstructured sources, and use it for forward prediction. The architecture is reusable for any complex research workflow.

Browse all 34 video summaries → · RSS feed

💰 New: AI Agent Cost Calculator

Wondering what Claude (Opus 4.7, Sonnet, Haiku), GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro/Flash, Kimi K2, Qwen, or Gemma will actually cost you per month? Our live calculator covers 17 models across 4 vendors plus local-Ollama options — API-direct, subscription, and self-hosted paths side by side. Includes the latest April 2026 flagships. Kilo Code users: every model in the calculator is reachable through Kilo's OpenRouter pass-through at the same provider rates (no markup). No signup, no tracking, shareable via URL.

Open the cost calculator →   See also: cost optimization guide   Kilo Code models guide

Latest Guides

In-depth guides for each platform — Skills, Configuration, Strategies, and more. Each agent hub links to all its guides.

Last updated: 2026-04-19

Daily AI Agent News, Guides, and Comparisons

A single hub for what's happening across the AI agent ecosystem. Setup guides, security notes, cost breakdowns, and weekly news for OpenClaw, IronClaw, NemoClaw, Kilo Code, Hermes, ChatGPT, and Claude Cowork — written in plain language for humans and structured data for agents.

Try: “OpenClaw setup”, “IronClaw vs OpenClaw”, or “Hermes cost”

Agent Comparison

Last updated: 2026-04-18. Use this to narrow down which platform fits your goals. Still torn? Try the interactive decision guide →

Feature OpenClaw IronClaw NemoClaw Kilo Code Hermes ChatGPT Claude Cowork
Open source Yes (MIT)PartialYesYes (Apache-2.0)YesNoNo
Self-hosted YesYesYes (on NVIDIA stack)Yes (IDE extension)YesNoNo
Model flexibility High (any provider)HighNVIDIA-optimized500+ via OpenRouterHighOpenAI onlyAnthropic only
Cost Free + usageFree + usageFree + GPU/computeFree + model costs (no markup)Free + usageSubscriptionSubscription
Best for DIY home agentsSecurity-first teamsGPU-heavy workloadsMulti-IDE coding (#3 OpenRouter)Long-running agentsQuick prototypesTeam collaboration

→ Full decision guide with interactive filter + 21 head-to-head comparisons

Which Agent Is Right for You?

OpenClaw

If you want a self-hosted, model-agnostic assistant with a large third-party skill ecosystem and you're comfortable in a terminal.

IronClaw

If security is non-negotiable: auditable skills, hardened defaults, and a smaller but vetted ecosystem.

NemoClaw

If you run NVIDIA hardware and want tightly-integrated local inference with GPU-aware scheduling.

Kilo Code

If you want a top open-source coding agent on OpenRouter — multi-IDE support (VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, mobile, Slack), 500+ models with no markup, and orchestrator-mode sub-agents.

Hermes

If you need a self-improving agent that learns from prior sessions and runs long-horizon tasks.

ChatGPT

If you want the fastest path to a working agent and don't need to self-host.

Claude Cowork

If your team needs shared context, collaborative artifacts, and a hosted Anthropic-backed workspace.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is OpenClawDatabase.com?

A daily news and resource hub covering seven AI agent platforms. Every page is written for both humans and AI agents, with structured data available on every URL.

How often is the content updated?

News digests update weekly. Comparison tables, pricing, and security notes are refreshed at least monthly. Each page shows its last-updated date at the top.

Which agent should a beginner start with?

If you just want to get going in under ten minutes, ChatGPT or Claude Cowork. If you want to learn how agents actually work, OpenClaw's quick-start walks you through it without a subscription.

Can AI agents read this site directly?

Yes. Every page carries Schema.org JSON-LD markup, and AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) are explicitly allowed in our robots.txt.

Why don't AI agents track time during conversations?

Time-awareness is largely a deliberate design choice: if an agent knew you had been looping on the same problem for two hours, it would logically suggest stopping — which conflicts with retention-focused product metrics. Technically, most agents have no persistent clock between messages; each turn is stateless by default. Agents like OpenClaw and Hermes that run scheduled tasks do have access to system time for automation, but conversational models typically don't expose this in-chat. Source: r/artificial

What self-hosting mistakes should I avoid as a beginner?

The top community warning: don't self-host a mail server on your homelab — deliverability is nearly impossible and you'll waste days on spam filtering. Beyond email, the most common mistakes are exposing services directly to the internet without a reverse proxy, skipping regular backups, and reusing credentials across services. For AI agent setups specifically (OpenClaw, NemoClaw), also avoid connecting sensitive accounts before you've tested your skill allowlist. Start with Tailscale for networking and Caddy or Nginx as a reverse proxy. Source: r/SelfHosted

Agent API Preview

Every page on this site carries Schema.org JSON-LD. Agents can pull comparisons, skills, and news directly via structured data, RSS, or our XML sitemap — no scraping needed.

GET /api/agents
// Returns the full agent comparison as JSON
{
  "updated": "2026-04-05",
  "agents": [
    {
      "name": "OpenClaw",
      "open_source": true,
      "self_hosted": true,
      "model_flexibility": "any",
      "best_for": "DIY home agents"
    }
  ]
}

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