Where Manef is heading, how it sits against the field, and what has shipped. If you want to help build it, pick a slice from the roadmap and open a PR.
OpenClaw owns channels, 9Router owns routing, Hermes owns the learning loop. Manef isn't racing them on feature count — it's the layer underneath: multi-tenant, encrypted per-user, and composable, where every capability ships as a droppable rr slice you add to any app with one command. The roadmap fuses the best of all three, then builds what none of them ship.
Every item is a self-contained vertical slice with a typed contract — build it once here, drop it into any app. Read the roadmap ↗ · pick a slice & contribute ↗
Manef borrows the strongest ideas from OpenClaw (channels / gateway), Hermes (memory + agent loop) and 9Router (routing + token savers) — then adds what none of them have: real per-user tenancy and encrypted-at-rest keys.
| Feature | OpenClaw | Hermes | 9Router | Manef |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-user multi-tenancy | ◐ | – | – | ✓ |
| Keys encrypted at rest | plaintext | plaintext | plaintext | AES-256-GCM |
| BYOK providers | ~60 | 28 | 94 | 22 |
| Agent loop + saved agents | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Memory + interactive graph | ◐ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| MCP server (OAuth 2.1) | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ |
| OpenAI / Anthropic /v1 gateway | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chat channels (Telegram / Slack …) | ✓ | ✓ | – | ◐ |
Only Manef ships true per-user multi-tenancy + AES-256-GCM keys at rest — the others are single-user with plaintext credentials. Full comparison ↗
This roadmap + how to contribute a slice
Full feature matrix vs OpenClaw / Hermes / 9Router
Shipped scope, verified against code
rr vertical-slice parity per feature
Best-practice + CRUD scorecard (0 HIGH)
The design, data model & non-goals