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Shane Mac: Convos lets users launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on mobile

Shane Mac · #2303 Convos: Instant OpenClaw on your phone · Apr 20, 2026 · at 0:24

Shane Mac, founder of XMTP and creator of Convos, introduces the functionality of the Convos chat application.

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“Convos is an app that allows you to launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on your phone.”

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The claim, plainly

Convos is a mobile application that allows users to launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on their phone.

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Assessment

Product documentation, integration repositories, and ecosystem listings verify Shane Mac's claim. As of April 14, 2026, official playbooks from OpenClawAlpha confirm that Convos Messenger natively integrates both OpenClaw and Nous Research Hermes agents, allowing users to trigger and deploy both agent types on mobile via UI gestures. Earlier technical documentation from February 2026 (including the xmtplabs/openclaw repository) and subsequent mid-2026 App Store listings corroborate that Convos supports mobile runtime interactions and deployments for both OpenClaw and Hermes agents over XMTP.

OpenClawAlpha Product Integrations and Feature Playbook (April 14, 2026) confirming native support for triggering and deploying OpenClaw and Nous Research Hermes agents via Convos's mobile interface.
OpenClaw and Convos Integration Technical Guide and repository documentation (February 13, 2026) detailing agent deployment via xmtplabs/openclaw extensions.
Mid-2026 Apple App Store ecosystem listings confirming mobile runtime wrappers connecting Hermes AI agents and OpenClaw tooling with Convos.

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[1] xmtp.org [2] aitinkerers.org [3] openclawalpha.org [4] openclawalpha.org [5] shanemac.com [6] shanemac.com [7] apple.com

"Convos" app "OpenClaw" "Hermes" "Convos" "Shane Mac" agent "Convos" "OpenClaw" "convosmessenger" "OpenClaw" "Hermes"

assessed as of 2026-09-03

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Convos Hermes OpenClaw

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Assertion Supported

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Assertion Supported

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Disclosure

Mac: Convos is onboarding about 50 waitlist users daily

“Probably like 50 or so. So the app is out there. You can work at you just unlocking the agents takes an invite code.”

Shane Mac Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 12:50 #2303 Convos: Instant OpenClaw on your phone

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