OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

Interview Ideally, you shouldn't have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don't live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.

OpenClaw, an open source agent platform, made that obvious as its popularity surged over the past month and security incidents followed. 

Consider the case of Summer Yue, director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, who posted last week about OpenClaw running amok and deleting her inbox. It's clear that AI agents cannot be trusted.

Gavriel Cohen, a software engineer based in Israel, hopes to change that with a more secure, more constrained agent platform called NanoClaw.

He started coding it at the end of January with the help of Anthropic's Claude Code. And a few weeks later, Andrej Karpathy, an influential AI researcher, took notice amid his musing about how OpenClaw and other "claws" have ...