OpenClaw + Hermes Ultimate — Full AI Dev Stack

Most AI agent setups give you a chatbot. This gives you a team. Seven specialist agents — each with a defined role, a defined budget, and a defined scope. HERMES orchestrates. FORGE codes using Claude Sonnet. CODEX codes using gpt-4o. CRUCIBLE audits with Claude Opus. LINTER scans nightly. SENTINEL watches your infrastructure every 30 minutes. RESEARCHER has live web access via Brave Search. --- **Your 7-agent team:** - **HERMES** — Lead orchestrator. Routes requests, manages agent memory, sends daily briefings and EOD digests. - **FORGE** — Codes with Claude Sonnet via the official Claude Code CLI. Reads and writes your actual project files. - **CODEX** — Second coding engine via OpenAI gpt-4o. Different model, different approach — better when compared. - **CRUCIBLE** — Claude Opus security auditor. OWASP vulnerability categories, severity-tagged findings, specific remediation steps. - **LINTER** — Nightly CVE scanner. Surfaces vulnerable dependencies before they become incidents. - **SENTINEL** — Infrastructure monitor. Checks server health, disk, process status, and API connectivity every 30 minutes. Alerts on anything abnormal. - **RESEARCHER** — Live web intelligence via Brave Search API. Cited results, confidence ratings, no hallucinated sources. --- **What makes this different: production config files you can actually use.** Not placeholder configs — real deployable files. `ecosystem.config.js` for PM2 process management, ready to copy. `nginx.conf` tested on live infrastructure, ready for `/etc/nginx/sites-available`. Full `docker-compose.yml`. A CLAUDE.md project context template that makes every local Claude Code session aware of your full project architecture. --- **Server hardening:** UFW firewall, fail2ban, SSH key enforcement, Let's Encrypt SSL with auto-renewal, daily backups. Your server is locked down from minute one. --- **What you need:** - Ubuntu 22.04 VPS - Anthropic API key (Claude Sonnet + Opus) - OpenAI API key (gpt-4o for CODEX) - Brave Search API key (free tier: 2,000 searches/month) - Telegram bot token Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.6 LTS — March 2026.