Lead with what is scarce, not with the mechanism - #10
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The opening line began "Give an agent a computer of its own" and then listed parts. It read as a how-to rather than a claim, and it was weaker than both the GitHub About and the paragraph six lines below it, which is a bad trade for the first thing a stranger reads. Everyone has agents now. What is scarce is one you would give real credentials to, so the line says that first and spends the rest on why it is safe. The paragraph underneath opened with the same teammate-and-own-computer framing and repeated it almost verbatim. It now carries what the opening cannot: bring any agent, watch it, take the wheel, components, your own machine.
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Replaces the bolded opening line, which was the weakest of the three places we describe OpenBot: it opened with an instruction ("Give an agent…"), spent its middle on a parts list, and said neither what the thing is nor why anyone should care. The GitHub About and the centred paragraph below both did that better.
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Everyone ships agents now, so "AI teammates" alone stops nobody. What is actually scarce is an agent you would hand real credentials to, so that goes in the first eight words and the mechanism follows as the reason it is safe.
Also reworks the centred paragraph. It opened with "Bots are teammates you hand real work to" and mentioned "a computer that stays theirs between sessions", which is the same claim as the new opening with only a video in between. It now carries what the opening cannot: bring any AG-UI agent, watch it work, take the wheel, components, runs on your own machine.
Every claim is one I have verified in the code.
Note on #9: that PR moves the architecture diagram out of this same region and uses the centred paragraph as context. No overlapping line is changed by both, but whichever lands second may want a quick rebase.