DeepSeek V4 barely has a consumer app of its own — it expects you to bring your own harness. Here’s which one to run it in, why the cache pricing makes agent harnesses the natural fit, and the setup detail that matters whichever you pick. Short answer Hermes Agent is the practical answer — and
DeepSeek Harness hit 70,000 GitHub stars in under a day. It’s free, MIT licensed, installs with one command, and every single part of it — model, memory, tools, even the agent loop — is a swappable plugin. Here’s what that means and the version warning you should read first. Short answer Free and MIT licensed
Hermes Bot Mode turns your sessions into a roster of named bots — each with its own avatar, memory, schedule and its own AI model. It’s free, open source, runs on your machine, and it does one thing Grok Bot won’t. Short answer A roster of named bots instead of a pile of identical sessions
Hermes /loop re-runs a prompt on a recurring cadence, and each wakeup is a real agent turn reading fresh state. Here’s how it works, the two cadence modes, every way a loop ends, and when you should be using /goal or cron instead. Short answer /loop 5m <prompt> re-runs a prompt every 5 minutes inside
LongCat-2.0 is free in the Nous Portal for one week — a 1.6 trillion parameter model with a 1M context that can swallow a whole codebase in one pass. It’s also the model that was quietly powering Owl Alpha. Here are the real specs, the benchmarks, and where it actually sits. Short answer 1.6T parameters,
DeepSeek V4 Pro just beat Claude Fable 5 on real agent benchmarks and raised $8B at a $74B valuation. Here’s how I’d wire it into my stack today.
Nous Research just made Hermes agents portable. Two commands — export and import — save your entire agent as one file and bring it back on any machine, with your persona, skills, memory and schedules intact. Here’s how it works and the detail that makes it safe to share. Short answer export packages persona, skills,
Grok 4.6 quietly turned Grok into a search engine that answers questions with sources — and almost nobody is competing for those rankings yet. Here’s the exact four-step system, with real keywords and real first-page results from the last 24 hours. Short answer Grok now searches the web and cites websites — a whole new
Three frontier models went live in one week — and the gap between the most expensive and the cheapest is now so thin on real work that picking wrong could cost you 50 times more than it should. Here’s which wins for which job, and the cost number almost nobody is talking about. Short answer
Looking for Grok Bot free? It’s $200, the trial ran out on me in about 20 minutes, and there’s no free tier from xAI. But there is a genuinely free open-source version that runs on the AI subscriptions you already pay for. Here’s the full picture. Short answer Grok Bot is $200 — not free.
