Hermes vs. Claude Code vs. the rest: Best AI agent harness so far?
I’ve been using Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw for different kinds of work:
Codex (now @ChatGPT by OpenAI )is strong at long-context planning and execution.
@Claude Code acts like a supervisor and a second pair of eyes.
@OpenClaw is like my daily operations intern.
I know there are many other agent harnesses. Many are open-source, including OpenHands, @Pi Coding Agent , and Hermes.
I’m curious. Which agent harnesses are you currently using? How do you use them differently? Am I missing any that you would strongly recommend?
Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts!
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Claude Code is the one that's stuck for me too, mostly for the same reason you're using it as a supervisor - it holds context over a long session better than the others I've tried, so it's the one I trust to actually keep track of what's already been decided instead of re-litigating it every few turns. haven't tried OpenClaw yet, what convinced you to trust it with daily-ops stuff specifically, was it the breadth of integrations or more about how it handles routine multi-step tasks without you having to babysit it?