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Hands-on AI Agent tutorials, picked for builders.

Curated Orange Book (橙皮书) guides and community tutorials we lean on when coaching members. Free to read, free to share. Original authors credited — please go support their work.

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HuaShu (花叔)

AI Native Coder · Indie Developer

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Orange Book · 橙皮书

Hermes Agent: The Complete Guide

The first Agent that ships with reins built in — and the reins keep growing.

A practical, project-first guide to Hermes Agent — the open-source AI Agent framework released by Nous Research in February 2026. Unlike OpenClaw and Claude Code, Hermes is built around a self-improving learning loop, a three-layer memory system, and Skills that create and evolve themselves. If you've read the Harness Engineering Orange Book, Hermes is the first real productization of those five components: instructions, constraints, feedback, memory, and orchestration.

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What's inside

  • 17 chapters across 5 parts — concept, mechanism, build, scenarios, deep thinking
  • Step-by-step setup: install, first conversation, multi-platform, customization
  • Real-world playbooks for knowledge assistants, dev automation, content, and multi-Agent
  • Three-way comparison with Claude Code and OpenClaw — what each is actually good for

Chapter map

ConceptsFrom Harness to Hermes — anxiety, gone§01-02
Core MechanismsLearning loop, memory, Skills, tool ecosystem§03-06
Hands-On SetupInstallation, first conversation, multi-platform, customization§07-11
Real-World ScenariosKnowledge assistant, dev, creation, multi-Agent§12-15
Deep ThinkingThree-way comparison, boundaries of self-improving Agents§16-17

Who it's for

  • Developers who've used Claude Code, OpenClaw, or Cursor and want to understand Hermes
  • AI builders who want to ship a personal AI Agent that actually learns
  • Founders curious about Harness Engineering as a productized framework

Original source

xianyu110 & contributors

Open-source community tutorial

xianyu110/awesome-openclaw-tutorial

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Orange Book · 橙皮书

Awesome OpenClaw Tutorial

From zero to your own AI work assistant — the most complete OpenClaw guide in Chinese.

A full-length, case-driven OpenClaw tutorial: install, configure, deploy, and operate. Covers seven different deployment paths (Feishu, BaoTa, JVSClaw, Kimi, WorkBuddy, QClaw, Coze), file management, knowledge bases, schedules, automation, Skills, multi-platform integration, API integration, and 5+ real solo-operator playbooks.

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What's inside

  • 15+ chapters with deployment quickstarts for every major OpenClaw flavor
  • Skills catalog, command reference, config templates, and best-practice appendices
  • Cost calculator and API comparison — pick the right model for the job
  • Real-world cases for solo founders, creators, and small teams

Who it's for

  • Operators who want a desktop Agent without writing code
  • Solo founders looking to wire OpenClaw into Feishu, WeCom, DingTalk, or QQ
  • Anyone shopping between Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent

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