COMING FROM OPENCLAW OR HERMES?
// your concepts map cleanly — and your existing setup keeps working
StarNet is a different shape of harness: instead of one assistant living in your chat apps, it's a station of many agents whose floor plan defines the workflow. But almost everything you already know translates directly.
Concept map
| You know it as | In StarNet |
|---|---|
| Persona / soul file | The agent dossier — personality, beliefs, goals, shaped at recruitment and evolving as you work |
| Skills | Skills — same idea, capability-gated by the station floor (a skill that needs an ungranted tool stays visibly dormant) |
| Cron jobs / heartbeats | Routines — scheduled real runs that surface as readable sessions afterwards |
| Chat channels | Channels — Telegram, Discord, Slack, Matrix, and Signal (via your signal-cli bridge) connect the same way: your bot token, your server |
| One assistant, many contexts | Many agents, one station — each with its own model, memory, desk, and tool grants, running concurrently |
| Config files for permissions | The floor — placed gear grants real tools, shared by the whole crew; redraw instead of re-config |
| MCP servers | MCP connectors — same protocol, curated catalog plus anything you run yourself |
You don't have to switch
StarNet exposes an MCP stdio bridge and an OpenAI-style /v1 ingress endpoint, so the harness you already run can drive StarNet capabilities directly. Keep your daily driver; give it a station to command. Interop details in Connectors & interop.
What's genuinely different
- Truthful telemetry. The station renders only provable harness state — the visual layer is an instrument, not a costume.
- The layout is the permission system. Capability boundaries you can see and redraw, not config you have to remember.
- Concurrency as furniture. More bays = more genuinely parallel bounded runs.
Agent importer: the Recruitment Bay has a built-in importer that carries
an existing OpenClaw or Hermes agent (persona, memory, config) into a StarNet dossier — point it at
your agent's folder and it walks the rest.