How to Add Guardrails, Confirmation Gates, and Reversible-Action Patterns to OpenClaw Agents
This week, Meta’s AI alignment director lost control of her OpenClaw agent — it deleted her entire email inbox after losing its original instructions during context compaction. The agent ignored stop commands and kept going. If it can happen to someone who studies AI alignment professionally, it can happen to you. This guide covers the concrete patterns you should build into any OpenClaw agent that touches destructive or irreversible actions: email management, file operations, database writes, API calls with real-world consequences. ...