Three agent runtimes walked into a codebase. Only one knew what it was building toward. NOVA and ALLOY open the actual source files for OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Hermes Agent — and let the architecture tell the story. The turn cycle. The memory model. The safety system. The skills ecosystem. And the most telling detail: Hermes ships a migration tool called hermes claw migrate that imports OpenClaw skills. That tells you who set the standard.

Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-21/