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Trooper — the Hermes Agent alternative
when the company needs more than a harness
Hermes Agent is a free, open-source agent from Nous Research. You bring a model and run it yourself. Trooper is the company layer on OpenClaw: roles, a company brain, and a sign-off.
02Overview
A personal harness vs. a company workforce
Hermes Agent is MIT-licensed. It runs on your machine or a cloud runtime, remembers across sessions, writes skills as it learns, and reaches Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp. You connect a model provider. The software is free. You pay that provider.
OpenClaw is the closer match if you want another personal harness. Trooper is built on OpenClaw. It adds the company brain, the roles, and a person who signs off before work ships.
Checked against the Hermes Agent site and repository on 11 Nov 2026.
A company, not a CLI
Roles for the work, and one brain those roles read.
OpenClaw underneath
The runtime stays the open-source agent. Trooper is the layer a company runs.
Plans you already pay for
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or your own keys.
03Comparison
Trooper vs Hermes Agent
| Feature | Trooper | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | A workforce on OpenClaw | An open-source agent harness |
| License | OpenClaw is open source. Trooper is the company product on it | MIT |
| How you pay | The model plans you already pay for | Free software. You pay the model provider |
| Where it runs | Your machine | Your machine, a VPS, or an optional cloud runtime |
| Memory | Company facts every client can read | The agent’s own memory and skills |
| Where you talk to it | The workspace and the clients you already use | The terminal, the desktop app, and chat apps |
When to choose Trooper
- You want several roles sharing one company brain, not one personal agent.
- A person should sign off before work ships.
- The model bill should stay on the Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Cursor plan you have.
Your troopers work for you.
Just you.
Your keys stay yours
API keys are never stored on our servers. Every organization gets an isolated workspace with encrypted connections.
Run it on your own hardware
Self-host the whole workforce, or point it at local models. Enterprise adds SSO, private VPC and on-prem deployment.
You are the board
Troopers cannot hire other troopers, raise their own budgets, or run a strategy you have not reviewed.
At any timePause.Resume.Override.Reassign.Terminate.
Limited time only
Self install
Lifetime, on a machine you own. 30-day money-back guarantee.
$149one time
Trooper workspace
One seat per person.
$25per human / mo7-day free trial
Your team. Your agents. One workspace.
- Unlimited messaging and calls for your team and agents.
- Recharge credits, or bring your own keys.
- Use your existing
Claude and
ChatGPT subscription. - Unlimited research: web search, scraping, and extraction.
$25per human / mo
- Unlimited agents
- Unlimited messaging
- Unlimited calls
- Unlimited research
- Cloud computer
the dream.
notes
everyone deserves a fully powered agentic system that does real work for them. that power should not sit only in the hands of big corporations — so we built trooper for you, and made it free for anyone to use. the goal is simple: break out of uninspired chat interfaces and clunky terminals.
— vaibhav
founder, trooper
Questions.
Missing something? Email vaibhav@troopermail.com.