The assignment
Fork Hermes or OpenClaw on GitHub and ship your own Product Manager AI Agent.

VETO is a Product Manager decision-intelligence agent built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to pressure-test roadmap and pricing decisions before they ship. It runs three custom skills — pricing-monitor, competitor-profile, and decision-log — and connects to Gmail via MCP to deliver reports on a set schedule, deployed on a self-hosted VPS.
Prachi shipped a public GitHub repo. This read comes from the artifact and Prachi's own account of it — no scores, just what the build does and does not show.
What it demonstrates
Take this awayThe pattern to steal: fork, then narrow. One PM workflow done properly beats a general assistant that does everything at demo depth.
Forking beats a blank page. Standing on Hermes or OpenClaw and bending it to a real PM workflow is exactly how modern builders ship a working agent in days instead of months.
It stands on a real codebase
A linkable fork of Hermes or OpenClaw. 'Inspired by' is how people describe a blank page they started anyway.
Bent to one PM job, properly
A PRD writer, a backlog triager, a teardown engine — a workflow the builder actually has. A renamed system prompt on a template is not customisation.
Seen doing the work
Running, answering, producing an artifact you can look at. A repo that claims to work and is never shown working asks for a lot of trust.
No numeric scores are published here. These pages are written reads of what each builder shipped — the build is the point, not a mark out of a hundred.