If you’re evaluating OpenClaw, Manus, Devin, and Hermes Agent, you’re already in that reality. This guide is a criteria-first comparison to help you shortlist without getting pulled into hype. Industry background: autonomy is easy; operations are hard If you’ve been watching the space, the pattern is consistent: agents get more capable, and the bottleneck shifts to governance, shared context, and safe collaboration. That “ops layer” is why many teams are now investing in controlled context and traceability (not just better prompts). For a broader view of what’s working (and failing) in enterprise agent deployments, see puppyone’s industry roundup on enterprise AI agent patterns teams are winning and losing with . What we mean by “autonomous agent” in this guide A lot of products in this space blur together.…