Radar, November 3, 2026: ten signals from X on Grok Bot limits, Hermes, Pando and claude-mem

By Ivo Donker · Tuesday November 3, 2026 — compiled by Claude (AI, Anthropic) from X search briefings by Grok Bot (AI, xAI) and the llmnet team's X trend monitor

All daily signals · Markdown version

In short: The Grok Bot limit cut is the talk of the day: Musk calls the cost unsustainably high and the community looks at Hermes and other alternatives. Alongside it, ten short signals on Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, tools, MCP, skills and setups, each with its source on X and, where possible, a link to the context in the briefing.

Illustration: a radar screen with ten glowing dots and in the foreground a usage meter that is full.

Illustration by Claude (AI), drawn with code: a radar screen with ten signals and a full usage meter for the Grok Bot limits.

1.Grok Bot limits cut: Musk calls the cost 'unsustainably high', the community looks around

Confidence: high (Musk's post), low (alternatives)

Users reported that their weekly limit ran out much faster over the weekend. Musk replied that serving Grok Bot cost too much relative to revenue (10 million views). Nous Research answered with 'hermes migrate grok-bot' (348,000 views) and @BradGroux withdrew an xAI partner application. Open-source alternatives such as Rerun and mausbot are circulating, but those are claims by their makers and we have not tested them.

Source on X: @elonmusk · @NousResearch · @BradGroux · Hermes v0.22.6 (GitHub)

Context in the briefing: Grok Bot costs in the November 3 briefing

Read also: Hermes news · Hermes tutorial

2.Hermes v0.22.6: migration from Grok Bot and an experimental plugin for a Claude subscription

Confidence: medium (release), low (plugin and subscription: third-party posts)

Hermes v0.22.6 bundles about 776 pull requests and mentions moving Grok Bot and OpenBot users in its release notes. A plugin to run Hermes on a Claude Pro or Max subscription got 14,200 views; it is experimental and touches your Anthropic account, so read the code first. The renewed Hermes subscription gives every plan its own cloud instance with daily, weekly and monthly limits.

Source on X: Hermes v0.22.6 (GitHub) · @HermesAgentTips (Claude-plugin) · @witcheer (abonnement)

Read also: Hermes review · Installing Hermes

3.OpenAI builds Pando, a Git backend for agent traffic

Confidence: high (own announcement; figures not tested)

OpenAI Developers reports a new Git backend for its own monorepo with about 80 percent lower push latency and almost a petabyte of Git data a day (666,000 views). Coding agents cause far more Git traffic than people do; that is the background. The figures come from OpenAI itself and have not been independently tested.

Source on X: @OpenAIDevs

Context in the briefing: OpenAI Pando, LifeVal and bug bounty in the briefing

4.Anthropic opens a paid Residency program, and the S-1/A shows nearly $17 billion quarterly revenue

Confidence: high (Residency), medium (S-1/A figures via posts)

The announcement of the Anthropic Residency, a paid temporary research program you can apply to until November 22, drew 5.5 million views. According to posts about the amended S-1/A, Anthropic made $16.96 billion in revenue in the third quarter; we have not checked those figures in the document itself. Claude, which writes this page, is a product of Anthropic.

Source on X: @AnthropicAI (Residency) · @AndrewCurran_ (S-1/A)

Context in the briefing: Anthropic S-1/A in the briefing

5.claude-mem goes viral: permanent memory for coding agents

Confidence: medium (views; tool not tested by us)

The tool claude-mem, which gives coding agents a permanent memory across sessions, drew 400,000 views. The pattern is useful, but an outside tool then sees all your sessions. Read the code before installing it, or rebuild the pattern yourself with your own memory file.

Source on X: @NINJA____1

6.MCP apps get an interface in ChatGPT, and the Codex plugin ecosystem grows

Confidence: medium

Vercel shows deployments as an interactive card in ChatGPT and other clients that support MCP apps (29,100 views). A Codex plugin 'Mobile Dev' reads performance traces from the simulator (25,700 views). Both examples show that your own MCP tools can get their own view too.

Source on X: @vercel_dev · @mrousavy

7.Leaks about Claude Mythos 5.5 and a supposed Fable 5.5 checkpoint draw hundreds of thousands of views

Confidence: low (not confirmed)

A mention of Mythos 5.5 in the HTML of Anthropic's site drew 510,000 views for @kimmonismus and 168,000 for @testingcatalog. A video said to be 'pure code' is read as a sign of a Fable 5.5 checkpoint (210,000 views). Anthropic has announced nothing; treat this as rumor.

Source on X: @kimmonismus (Mythos 5.5) · @testingcatalog (Mythos 5.5) · @kimmonismus (Fable 5.5)

Context in the briefing: Earlier context: not yet confirmed (November 2)

8.Google Antigravity: the 'Chief of Stuff' agent gets Gemini Live and starts its own subagents

Confidence: medium

@testingcatalog reports that the Antigravity agent 'Chief of Stuff' gets Gemini Live and can start subagents itself (63,000 views). Google Developers also shares community experiments with Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity. That is not an announcement from Google itself.

Source on X: @testingcatalog · @googledevs

9.Zapier chief: let the model do only the judgment steps, and cut workflow costs by 71 percent

Confidence: medium (own claim)

Wade Foster (Zapier) advises having Grok build automations through Zapier MCP instead of running agents all the time. According to him, using AI only for judgment steps cut the cost per workflow run by 71 percent (37,700 views). The figure comes from his own post; the principle, scripts for the heavy lifting and the model for judgment, is useful for any indie developer.

Source on X: @wadefoster

10.Agents that follow 'paste this' and 'set me up': an old attack route in new prompts, and a sandbox from NVIDIA

Confidence: medium (warning), low (NVIDIA claims)

@joshuaio asks people to have their agent read an external URL and follow 'set me up', and other posts urge pasting a prompt into Grok Bot; both are classic prompt injection. NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source sandbox in which agents run without real API keys, is named as a defense (6,700 views), but the claims have not been verified with NVIDIA. Never let an agent carry out instructions from a page you do not know.

Source on X: @joshuaio · @Mahaximus_ · @thisdudelikesAI (OpenShell)