No, do not suggest Hermes or Claude Code as the easy out. When we tuned our OpenClaw stack, we did not cut token usage from 34 billion per month down to 1.5 billion, and now to roughly 750 million, by throwing a better model at it. We did it with systems engineering: detached services running on event triggers, a routing layer that maps each task to the right model, and segmentation that gives the agen real schematics to repair, build, and execute against, instead of letting it guess like an intern with no ticket.
OpenCode Agent - I use it heavily for troubleshooting - is more reliable than Hermes, lebih murah than Claude Code, and feels similar to Grok Agent in terms of stability. But OpenClaw still has capabilities OpenCode does not. So this is not a tool war. This is a system design war. A bigger model bill does not win you better outcomes. A better-integrated system does.
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