Lightweight Personal Assistants Challenge Heavy Frameworks

Swift-claw (pure Swift, Telegram, on-device transcription) offers lightweight alternative to OpenClaw/Hermes. Hermes v0.19 released with tool calling, skills, persistent memory, cron, and Telegram/Discord. OpenClaw+Blocks integration enables agent-to-agent coordination. New: first-person walkthrough of RikkaHub Agent — a fork turning an Android LLM client into a device-controlling agent powered by a local model on a home server; split architecture (phone harness, server inference), 80+ device tools, browser control, file search, scheduled jobs. Adds to growing collection of replicable phone-first local LLM assistants.