Peter Steinberger 🦞

A maintainer of OpenClaw expresses frustration after spending the night reviewing security advisories and bug reports. The core message: OpenClaw is designed as a personal assistant for a single user managing one or many agents — it is not a multi-tenant bus. Attempting to force multi-user adversarial scenarios onto it adds unnecessary complexity and bugs. The maintainer closed around 20 such reports and urges contributors to read the project's security model documentation before filing issues.

Since I spend my night again sifting through security advisories, folks, security researches, slop clankers, PLEASE - read https://t.co/OUA1Z4GWMd and https://t.co/uUitTHjBqq

The security model of OpenClaw is that it's your PERSONAL assistant (one user - 1...many agents).

IT IS NOT A BUS. If you want to have multiple users that are adversarial to each other, use on VPS per gateway and user. (or Mac Minis, if you like spending money)

I closed like 20 reports today that try to force it into something it's was never designed for and that would just add loads of needless complexity and would introduce unnecessary bugs that won't benefit the wast majority of users.

<p>Since I spend my night again sifting through security advisories, folks, security researches, slop clankers, PLEASE - read https://t.co/OUA1Z4GWMd and https://t.co/uUitTHjBqq

The security model of OpenClaw is that it's your PERSONAL assistant (one user - 1...many agents).

IT IS NOT A BUS. If you want to have multiple users that are adversarial to each other, use on VPS per gateway and user. (or Mac Minis, if you like spending money)

I closed like 20 reports today that try to force it into something it's was never designed for and that would just add loads of needless complexity and would introduce unnecessary bugs that won't benefit the wast majority of users.</p>

Peter Yang

A humorous social media post expressing frustration about people incorrectly adding OpenClaw to random chat threads, clarifying it is not a general-purpose communication bus.