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• > We take contributions as human-written text, not code — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Describe the change you'd like informally in a .txt or .md file in adrs/, and if we're aligned we'll handle the implementation.

  Interesting approach to open source contributions. Closer to feature requests at that point?

  by wxw
• I love the concept to use different harness frameworks in qm but a true multiplayer harness needs to support other agents and any MCP clients, including Cowork.

  Making agents multiplayer is mostly a context problem. You could be using ChatGPT or a Slack bot, or a web interface and the agent needs to know you, your conversations in Cowork etc. so it can enable multi channel collaboration with your agents and your colleagues. We're working on it at https://lobu.ai

  by buremba
• What is yc software?
  by kevinwang
• Someone from Y Combinator made some software. Must there be narrativization of everything?
  by rytill
• I think it's the website you're on
  by dwedge
• A team of brilliant people who work at YC shipping products internally and externally.
  by Finbarr
• This was literally in YC's Request For Startups for Fall 2026: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#multiplayer-ai
  by sudb
• How is QM trying to differentiate from HarnessRouter.ai, which launched on Launch YC about 10 days ago? https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpL-harnessrouter-bring...

  Both seem to provide a unified interface across different harnesses/models. HarnessRouter exposes that as a developer API for embedding agent-powered features into products, with Task / Run / Session / Streaming / File / Artifact / Renderer contracts, plus tracing around harness/model behavior over time.

  Is the main distinction that QM is a company workspace, while HarnessRouter is an embeddable harness layer for product teams and enterprises?

  by kuanzema
• Aren't there a ton of products already doing this? Why not just use claude Cowork? Surely they're simpler/better/more featureful/developed than the alternatives here? What advantage does this have? Would love to see a 'QM vs Cowork' comparison!
  by recsv-heredoc
• maybe you want to use a different model?
  by omederos
• People are building state-of-the-art harnesses in private right now that outperform the average developers' harnesses, people using Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.
  by bellowsgulch
• this one is trying to cashin on the 'multiplayer' keyword after the buzz that 'no one has cracked multiplayer yet'. well the ui sucks and is not it.
  by kang
• > Would love to see a 'QM vs Cowork' comparison!

  It feels like the big thing they are touting here is the shared company brain. Not clear to me though, how that brain is developed when each person has their own harness. (I did only skim the docs.)

  And it still has the issue of: if the agent is acting as me, then security wise it can do anything I can do. Maybe that's why they are recommending for startups.

  But yes, comparison would be helpful.

  by lukasco
• > Why not just use claude Cowork?

  Many people don't want to support a company pushing for regulatory capture.

  by nozzlegear
• > Why not just use claude Cowork?

  Because people want to be able to do things like use their own clients of pi or opencode with LLMs they run themselves, such as the just released deepseek v4 flash 0731, not permanently tied to an Anthropic ecosystem of non-open-weight LLMs and pay forever per token.

  by walrus01
• We’ve been deploying QM into customer AWS accounts (official Terraform path). Happy to answer AWS/ops questions. DIY vs managed cost sketch: https://digitize.llc/qm/calculator/ · writeup: https://digitize.llc/qm/
  by jessejin
• It's fascinating to see new UI primitives and concepts get invented in the LLM era. The sea of creativity makes it hard to even understand most of what each new app does, and nobody describes them well. When I went to the Hermes agent web page, I was left with zero clue about what it did or what it could do. It took a bit of digging to find the right part of the qm page that helped me grok what was going on.

  I've become attached to Orca (yc-backed) for managing coding sessions in the past week, but some sort of postgres session db is what's really lacking. So, maybe it's time to try qm.

  by epistasis
• AI needs entirely new primitives in many areas.
  by j45
• It's really hard to focus on the unique aspect of your tool because it runs the risk that people will think it's unfamiliar and therefore not useful to them. That's why a lot of the tool marketing pages look the same even though the tools themselves might be different or innovative
  by 2001zhaozhao
• It is fascinating and I love to see it. Ultimately though, why not build your own? I think that in part is what we're beginning to see-- highly customized and personalized software. I take most of these as inspiration these days and just build my own. Nothing you can't hammer out with a few good Claude sessions.
  by papascrubs
• Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical folks to do more things or if it's some unlock and additive value. At end of day beneath it all things are just prompts, and then you can provide tools and context, but even then that's not even something I've found that useful to keep because context windows are still limited and bias propagations often need to be constantly corrected, especially when digital artifacts are not perfect representations of the real world.
  by bfeynman
• It gives every employee their own personal assistant (AI agent). It learns their preferences, and more importantly, can access whatever they can.
  by sheepscreek
• Is Hermes the best openclaw like agent as they mention running it before?

  Also, what are power uses really using openclaw like systems for?

  by yewenjie
• I think most people use it to poll their email and instant messages and whateva with an LLM
  by fassssst
• hermes is great to get started with, but it's packed to the gills with stuff you'll probably use one time just to test it. and this eats in to your context so if you're hoping to run it on a lighter-weight local model you'll run in to some trouble. if you go into it planning to customize/thin it out it's solid
  by weirdish
• I didn't have good experience with Hermes. Vellum.ai was better, but unfortunately it had a bug where opencode go providers failed to work for a time, so I instead starting writing my own.

  (Now it is working)

  by gf000
• I think Hermes is a kitchen sink of antipatterns and bloat, which is true of the vast majority of these "Claws"
  by nylonstrung
• I'm currently using it to help me with my oncall, first responder to our any production alerts. It's not as efficient as coding agent by default, but it's been tremendously helpful to me.
  by azuanrb
• Hermes is what I was using but I still found it annoying I often wanted to operate 1-2 levels deeper.

  Yesterday I just decided to try writing my own version (100% just for me, not open source, no monetization plan, incredibly custom) and I've been enjoying working on it so far (I know, I know, it's been a day, honeymoon period and all that).

  Part of it is I like building software (even if I'm not writing every line) and part is I like having full control. Turns out (and many people have said this) the basic agent loop really isn't all that special. There are a million levers to pull and what not outside the base loop but that the fun part for me. Trying out different ways to add on to the core concept.

  I'm really enjoying being untethered for things like "how will I monetize?" or "how do I make this generic so others can use it?". If I need functionality I just add it in, I don't need to make it infinitely pluggable, etc.

  All that said, I'm thankful to things like nanoclaw and then Hermes for exposing me to the core ideas. I just want to put my own spin on it.

  by joshstrange
• Hermes is huge and packed with features you probably don't need. I prefer smaller one I can extend as necessary, there are so many on github now and it is fun to test them but have been impressed with dirge (https://github.com/dirge-code/dirge) not affiliated.

  I have one reading my second tier RSS feeds and newsletters and giving me news/market updates filtered for things important to me

  by backscratches