agent race

work note

The agent tool field once looked like a head to head contest between OpenClaw and Hermes. Buzz entered in July 2026, then Grok Bot followed in August, only one week before this work was published. Suddenly there were enough runners for a real race. No competitor has pulled far enough ahead to settle it, and the field is still filling up. The growing number of contenders makes the outcome harder to predict and much more interesting to watch.