Vision and Deep Scan
Point your iPhone at a room, shelf, screen, tool, food label, patient handout, or bug. Your agent gets grounded visual context instead of a vague prompt.
The actual unlock
OpenClaw and Hermes are powerful. CARAPACE makes them present.
Most agents are trapped behind a text box. CARAPACE turns your phone into their sensor rig, control surface, and secure remote cockpit.
Voice that stays in context
Talk naturally while CARAPACE carries the live scene, transcript, location, and active runtime into the same conversation.
Spatial and location awareness
The phone adds place, movement, device signals, and environmental hints so your setup understands where the work is happening.
One control layer
Switch machines, runtimes, and agents like tabs.
Run OpenClaw as the main operating layer. Add Hermes when you want another runtime on the same host. CARAPACE keeps them cleanly separated while making them feel like one fleet.
Machine switching
Mac, Linux, VPS, Raspberry Pi, and sibling runtimes under one friendly machine picker.
Agent switching
Dedicated agents keep identity, history, projects, and purpose separated.
Runtime toggle
OpenClaw and Hermes can live behind one QR with one home-screen toggle.
No hosted middleman
Your gateway, your token, your Tailscale route, your models.
CARAPACE Fleet
VPS
OpenClaw
Hermes
Built-in productivity
The agent is not just chat. It is an operating layer.
CARAPACE gives everyday users the controls that make self-hosted agents useful after the first demo.
Projects
Track initiatives per agent and runtime. Convert suggestions into real work when you are ready.
Cron and reminders
Schedule follow-ups, recurring jobs, and autonomous checks without living in a terminal.
Sessions
Jump between histories, runtimes, and long-running work without losing the thread.
Setup that survives reality
OpenClaw-first install, cache-busted CARAPACE updates, quiet heartbeat setup, QR pairing, Tailscale routing, and optional Hermes support are guided instead of improvised.
Private by design
CARAPACE is not another AI cloud.
It is a secure client for the agent systems you run. Your machines stay yours. Your OpenClaw and Hermes endpoints stay behind your gateway and Tailscale route.
Tailscale-first remote access, with pairing by QR instead of public dashboards.
OpenClaw is the primary install path. Hermes is an optional advanced-user addon that can also run standalone.
History, projects, cron, agents, and runtime state remain separated per machine and runtime.
Start here
Install the control layer. Keep the guides for the details.
The fastest path is the setup prompt: get the app, copy one guarded prompt, and paste it into your agent. It layers CARAPACE onto OpenClaw without touching your memory, auth, or history. Prefer to do it by hand? The DMG and one-line installers below are the fallback.
Recommended · easiest
Set it up with one prompt
Get the iPhone app, then copy one guarded setup prompt and paste it into your agent. It inventories what you already have, shows a plan, asks before changing anything, and layers CARAPACE onto OpenClaw without touching your memory, auth, or history.
Advanced & fallback paths
Mac
Guided desktop install
Download CARAPACE for macOS, choose OpenClaw, Hermes support only, or both, then pair your phone over Tailscale.
Download DMG Read Mac guideiPhone
The agent cockpit
Vision, voice, machine switching, projects, cron, sessions, and agent selection from your phone.
Open App Store Get supportLinux / VPS / Pi
One-liner setup
Install OpenClaw first, layer CARAPACE on top, then optionally add Hermes as a separate runtime bridge.
curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash
curl -fsSL https://carapace.info/install.sh | bash
curl -fsSL https://carapace.info/install-hermes-agent.sh | bash