Choosing an agent
The agents you can deploy on Sokko, and which one fits your job.
When you create an agent you pick a runtime — the kind of agent it is. There are four you can deploy today, each good at different things, and a fifth on the way. You can run more than one, and you can always spin up another later.
OpenClaw
A chat assistant that lives in your messaging apps, with a big library of ready-made skills. Good first pick if you want a helper on Telegram.
Hermes
A research and memory agent that gets better at a task each time it does it.
Paperclip
A group of agents that work together like a small company, with roles, budgets, and an audit trail.
Cursor
A coding agent that works on your GitHub repository — it opens pull requests, replies to reviews, and ships code.
OpenSRE — coming soon
An AI site-reliability engineer that watches your systems and helps when something breaks. Not available yet.
Quick comparison
| Agent | Best for | Signature strength |
|---|---|---|
| OpenClaw | A chat helper across messaging apps | 1,000+ community skills |
| Hermes | Ongoing research and knowledge work | Self-improving, remembers everything |
| Paperclip | Coordinating several agents on a goal | Roles, budgets, audit log |
| Cursor | Coding on a GitHub repository | Opens PRs, runs parallel workers |
| OpenSRE (coming soon) | Keeping systems healthy | Reads signals, suggests fixes |
What every agent gets
No matter which one you pick, an agent on Sokko:
- Runs around the clock and comes back on its own if it crashes.
- Gets its own private web page and terminal, open only to you and people you invite.
- Keeps its files and memory between restarts.
- Can use models you pay for with Sokko credits, or your own provider key (BYOK).
- Can connect to Telegram so you can talk to it from your phone.
Cursor is the one exception: you steer it from Cursor's own app instead of a Sokko web page, and it uses your Cursor subscription for models. See Cursor for how it works.
Not sure? OpenClaw is the easiest place to start — you can have it answering on Telegram within minutes.