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Minimum VRAM needed to run a functional Openclaw/Hermes agent?

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Those of you successfully running an offline openclaw/hermes/personal agent harness for non-coding tasks, what is the floor on system resources (VRAM) needed for quality of life? Assuming a modest ~30b class model. What quant and context window size are needed? Will keep cloud frontier LLM sub for…

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  1. 2026-09-12 02:59 · r/LocalLLM
    Minimum VRAM needed to run a functional Openclaw/Hermes agent?

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