I built skelm because n8n, OpenClaw, and Hermes didn't fit my use case

I needed to run AI agent workflows locally, in TypeScript, with real permission

enforcement. I spent time with the obvious options — n8n, OpenClaw, Hermes —

and none of them quite fit. So I built

If you've hit the same wall with n8n, OpenClaw, Hermes, or any other

orchestration framework — I'd genuinely like to hear what the gap was for

you. Happy to answer questions about the permission model or any of the

backend integrations in the comments.