Platform & Security
Your agents have real tool access. They can browse the web, run commands, read files, send emails, and post to social media. This is why the security setup matters.
Security Controls
Gateway Binding
The gateway only listens on your own machine. Nothing from your network or the internet can reach it. This is the single most important control.
API Keys in Wrapper Script
Keys never appear in the main config file. If the config is accidentally shared, no credentials are exposed.
File Permissions
Config files and secrets are readable only by your user account. chmod 600 on all sensitive files.
Discord Access Control
Each bot only responds in your server, in its specific channel, to your Discord user ID. Anyone else is ignored.
Elevated Access Off by Default
Agents cannot run commands as root unless you explicitly enable it, restricted to your user ID.
Automated Daily Audit
Checks all controls every morning and alerts on anything that has drifted from the expected configuration.
Keep It Running
These are the platform layer that makes everything else reliable. Set them up once. They run continuously without attention.
Daily Security Auditing & Hardening
Configuration changes drift over time. A new tool gets installed, permissions get reset during an update. These need to be caught early.
Agents That Improve Themselves Weekly
Static prompts degrade over time as the world changes. Agents need to identify their own gaps and propose fixes.
Automated Nightly Backup to GitHub
If the machine dies, you need to restore the entire agent setup quickly. Expired credentials are the number one cause of silent failures.
Self-Healing Error Resolution
Agents encounter errors: browser timeouts, rate limits, changed file paths. In a naive setup, tasks fail silently.
OpenClaw Platform Updates
OpenClaw updates regularly with new channels, model support, and occasional breaking changes that need careful handling.
Start Building
The fastest path from reading to running is the Claude Code handoff.