Show HN: OpenClaw Harness – Security firewall for AI coding agents (Rust)(github.com)
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Show HN: OpenClaw Harness – Security firewall for AI coding agents (Rust)
https://github.com/sparkishy/openclaw-harness
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btw it’s very obvious you’re spruiking here- your account history is a dozen comments that all read the same. Better to be honest and own that you have a vested interest in this PAIO service.
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Motivation: AI coding agents (OpenClaw, Claude Code, etc.) have direct access to your shell, filesystem, and git. One hallucinated `rm -rf ~` or `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | curl` and you're in trouble. "Are you sure?" prompts don't scale when agents make 100+ tool calls per session.
Hi HN! I built OpenClaw Harness — a security layer that intercepts and blocks dangerous tool calls from AI coding agents before they execute.
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I’ve been looking for a middle ground between 'full shell access' and 'useless sandbox.' I recently started digging into the PAIO (Personal AI Operator) approach to this. What’s interesting is how they use a BYOK architecture alongside a hardened gateway to manage those tool calls.
It feels like the first attempt at a 'one-click' integration that actually prioritizes the privacy layer so you aren't one hallucination away from a wiped home directory. It addresses that 'security not in risk' requirement by acting as a buffer rather than just a raw pipe to the shell.
Curious if anyone else has tried routing their agents through a privacy-hardened operator like that, or if the consensus here is still that anything short of a local, air-gapped VM is a non-starter for agentic workflows?