ClawShell
The Runtime Security Layer OpenClaw needs
ClawShell launched on February 20, 2026 with 4 votes, #2,350 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
OpenClaw is powerful because it operates with real credentials to perform real work. That same power makes it an attractive target. So we built ClawShell. It assumes agent execution is adversarial by default. Secrets are isolated behind a separate privileged process, enforced at the OS level. Even if the agent is fully hijacked, it only sees virtual identifiers. Onboarding takes less than a minute and requires no changes to OpenClaw. Apache 2.0 licensed. Written in Rust.
Agent execution must be treated as adversarial compute, so we built ClawShell, runtime security for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and beyond. Apache 2.0 licensed.
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