RIP OpenClaw/Hermes: Composio + Claude Agents SDK is NUTS

Income stream surfers| 00:09:57|Apr 30, 2026
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The chapter demonstrates how easy it is to load the Claude API skill to auto-build AI workflows and previews the breadth of what can be built with it.

Claude managed agents via Composio unlocks cloud AI workflows that rival OpenClaw/Hermes, with simple Gmail/GCal integrations and 12:00 daily runs.

Summary

Income stream surfers presents a hands-on look at how Claude managed agents, paired with Composio, can replace traditional OpenClaw/Hermes setups. The creator demonstrates loading a Claude Code skill from the Claude API, then wires it into a cloud-based workflow that can manage 이메일, scheduling, and client outreach. He shows how MCP connects Gmail to a cloud agent, allowing daily triage at 12:00 and automated draft replies. Composio is praised for making client sharing easy: send a link, client logs in once, and setup is done. The video emphasizes trust in Anthropic over other vendors and frames the workflow as a viable service you could sell on Fiverr or to local businesses. Throughout, the creator contrasts the cost and reliability of Claude-based solutions with older, less stable options. The close ties the idea to freelancing and SEO-like value creation, suggesting these AI workflows are the “new standard” for automation in 2026. Finally, the presenter credits Composio with simplifying access to cloud agents and notes Hermes/OpenClaw are not the only viable paths anymore.

Key Takeaways

  • Claude managed agents enable cloud-based AI workflows using Claude Code built quickly and reliably.
  • MCP connects Gmail to a cloud agent, enabling daily inbox triage and automated draft replies.
  • Composio lets you share client-ready AI workflows with a single link, streamlining onboarding and access.
  • You can replace OpenClaw and Hermes with Claude Code managed by Anthropic, improving trust and security.
  • Pricing is competitive enough that the workflows can be offered as services (e.g., on Fiverr) to automate client-facing tasks.
  • The workflow can run on a schedule (e.g., daily at 12:00) and handle dynamic data like emails and sponsorships in real time.
  • The approach scales across niches (customer service, SAS projects, e-commerce returns) and can be customized per client.

Who Is This For?

Freelancers and developers who want to monetize automated AI workflows. Ideal for those exploring cloud-based agents, Claude Code, and Composio to deliver client-ready automation services or new SEO-like automation offerings.

Notable Quotes

""All you have to do is say something about the claude API and it will load the skill.""
Shows how quickly Claude skill loading works from the API.
""This is basically the main one that I want to talk about today. This is like being able to give clawed code to a client in a AI workflow but like in the cloud.""
Highlights the shift to cloud-based Claude code workflows.
""Composio is so good, guys. Honestly, like shout out to Composeio. I don't know what they're doing over there, but it's absolutely incredible.""
Praises Composio for simplifying client access and deployment.
""You can make one of these workflows for people and offer it as a service on Fiverr or wherever it might be, and you can make money from this.""
Underlines monetization potential of AI workflows.
""Claude managed agents which yes are more expensive but at the end of the day if it gets the job done instantly then I don't even know why people bother with these other things.""
Expresses trust in Claude managed agents over alternatives.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How do Claude managed agents with Claude Code compare to OpenClaw and Hermes for cloud workflows?
  • What is MCP and how does it connect Gmail to a cloud AI agent?
  • How can I use Composio to share AI workflows with clients securely?
  • What are the steps to schedule a Claude Code agent to run daily at a specific time (e.g., 12:00)?
  • Can Claude managed agents be a viable freelancing service on platforms like Fiverr or for local businesses?
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Full Transcript
So look how easy this is guys. All you have to do is say something about the claude API and it will load the skill. This basically finally solves the problem of creating AI workflows with AI. So you can see here it has basically everything. So just give me a full rundown of what you could build based off the skill. I love to use AI like this guys. give tell it to give you a rundown of what it can do, right? I do the same thing with my own project harbor and I advise you guys to do the same thing here. So look at this. So foundation single API calls workflows c code orchestrated tool use agents open-end model driven managed agents server managed hosted by anthropic. This is kind of the main one that I want to talk about today. This is like being able to give clawed code to a client in a AI workflow but like in the cloud. So you no longer need to worry about you know having a server. How do you start cla code? How do you do this? How do you do that? You can use managed agents to do all of this. And in this video I'm going to show you why this skill is so amazing for that. So just explore with me guys. I'm going to say, "How does MCP work with managed agents/vaults?" Okay, so I'm not going to show this obviously, but this is the prompt I just sent. So I just said, "Make me a basic inflight login for Google and have it log in." And then secret key, client ID. I'll reroll these shortly just so that it doesn't get kind of stuck on the fact that I just shared these details. Then create a managed agent that at 12:00 p.m. every day goes through my inbox and looks for new sponsorship activities and drafts replies to all clients, future clients. The main point of what I'm trying to show is all of these things, Hermes agent, Open Claw, all of them you can replace extremely easily with managed agents, right? But not only that, you can sell this to people as well. So once you add like things like browser use, right? and then you've got tool use already, right? If you add all of these things to a managed agent, it honestly the things it can do are just absolutely crazy. What I'm trying to explain to people, I've been trying to explain this on my channel for a while now, is you can make one of these workflows for people and offer it as a service on Fiverr or wherever it might be, and you can make money from this, right? If you reach out to local businesses, obviously selling small business is another matter. It's very very difficult. But in my opinion, this is like the new SEO, right? You're automating things for people in their business is kind of the new way that I can see right now. If I was going into freelancing, this is what I would be doing. So, just some history on me. In like 2016, I was living uh somewhere where I couldn't really find a job. I I didn't speak the local language well enough, basically. Oh, wait, no. 2016. Yeah, 2016. So, what I did was I looked online and I became a writer. But then I read an article that was like, "You need to be more specific because everyone's just a writer." So, I decided to be an SEO writer/content writer. This is how I got into, you know, all of the stuff that I've been doing online since. If now I was going into freelancing or whatever in 2026, I would look at vibe coding and also um creating aic workflows for people. These are the two things that I would be doing right now. And the best way to do this isn't Hermes agent. It's not open claw in my opinion. It's uh Claude managed agents which yes are more expensive but at the end of the day if it gets the job done instantly then I don't even know why people bother with these other things right claude now has shipped everything that you need to make these flows and then after running the oorth inside this thing here which is the developer playground which I didn't know existed until just now you just click this button up here tick the little button that says use your oorthth credentials put your oath credentials there from console.google.com google.com and then select the Gmail API here and then you can basically give yourself access here right so you can send a link to your client for example to get access like that and then basically in just a second what's going to happen is we're going to run everything it's going to create a managed agent which every day will run at 12:00 using only anthropic skills claude code built incredibly quickly and incredibly easily no struggle whatsoever on my half I did have to ask it to research oorthth a little bit, but that's okay. Like, it got it in the end. And what we're doing is we're I'm basically saying, look, I trust Anthropic. I don't really trust Open Claw. I don't really trust Hermes agent. Like, I just I don't know. I have a bad feeling about them. Um, whereas Anthropic, yeah, okay, maybe not the best company in the entire world, but at least you can kind of trust them, you know, with security and things like that much more than you can trust a random GitHub project anyway, in my opinion. So we can see here this is the managed agent. It has the MCP tool which basically connects it to Gmail inside you know this right and if I click on sessions we should start to see some kind of reading right. So today it's running today's sponsorship triage and every day at 12 p.m. it will run a triage and give me a summary of the information um from the Gmail inbox. Now, obviously, this is just an example. You can do this across many different things, across many different niches for many, many, many different people. I'm telling you guys, if you learn these skills, this is what will make you money uh this year. Okay, guys. So, I had to actually pivot away from Oorthth and just decided to use Composio instead. Composio is so good, guys. Honestly, like shout out to Composeio. I don't know what they're doing over there, but it's absolutely incredible. makes everything super easy. All you do is send like a link to your client that they open, right? They log in once and then, you know, it's done. So, we should see in just a second an agent that actually has access to my Gmail in the cloud and all I had to do was log in to a link like that. Okay, so let's see if this works. This is now running. This is an agent in the cloud. I've never been able to do this before, guys. I could never really bridge the gap between like how do I log in? How how do I log into my email? Okay, guys. So, as you can see, this is actually reading my emails. I have never been able to do this. Something I've been wanting to do since the beginning of AI, right? Having something that can run in the cloud with the power of claude code that can do all of these things, you know, every day at a certain time, just like OpenClaw. This is why people use OpenClaw. This is why people use Hermes. But what I'm trying to tell people is there's no point wasting time trying to use Chinese models with Hermes, open claw, that kind of stuff. At the end of the day, you know, this stuff is not that expensive. Like I I'm running Opas. I guarantee you this is not that expensive to run. Yeah. As you can see, guys, there are three potential candidates that have been picked up. This is what I'm trying to tell people. You can go and you can sell this to people, right? These workflows, this is what people want. customer agents, customer service, that kind of stuff for e-commerce, returns, refunds for SAS projects. There's so many things that you can build and they can all be bespoke and custom specific to your customers. So, you know, you can charge more money for it. Composio is a huge part of this, I have to say. Composio will make all of this super super easy and super super simple. And it just means that you can connect to things much more easily, right? And all you do is you send your client a link, they connect their oorthth or whatever you know as they are familiar with doing and then you are connected to composio. So yeah this is basically claude managed agents. So claude code right. So the claude agent SDK running on Linux in the cloud with MCPs using composio to connect to things like Gmail, Google calendar, whatever people want to connect to. And these things they they can get around specific issues like if there is an issue, if there's a problem, if there's an error, it doesn't just get stuck like N8. It tries to work through the error. So there was an error there. Look, error and then it just continues, right? It's very diligent as well. Like it's extremely diligent. There was an error there where Semrush was too large because we've had so many emails between us. So it basically got the last message so that it can see what the update is for that. And that's just prompt based, right? So it just came up with that by itself because that is what helps it achieve its goal here. Okay. So yeah, this is just an example of one of the draft replies that it has created for me. This is a perfectly good response, right? But I mean it's just the the fact of this is that because it's using Anthropic system, we can trust it more. It's more likely to work because it's using Sonnet or Opus or whatever. And you don't need to worry too much about costs because these things cost less than you might think. Then all you would do is you would come here, you would schedule it, right? So that um you know it runs at a certain time every single day and then you have literally replaced openclaw and Hermes with a system that is much more trustworthy in my opinion. Anyway, I would rather trust anthropic to be honest with you. I'm going to leave the video there guys. Thanks so much for watching. If you are watching to the end of the video, you're an absolute legend. I'll see you very very soon with some more content.

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