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I don't use OpenClaw, but I still run my Claude Code and Codex as limited macOS user accounts and just have a script `become-agent [cmd ...]` that does some sudo stuff to run as the limited user so they don't have any of my environment or directory access, or really any system-level admin access at all. They can use and write to their home directories as usual, which makes things easier to configure since those CLI h…
Not too much harder is using a VM:
With Apple's open-source container tool, you can spin up a linux container vm in ~100ms. (No docker root)
With Apple virtualization framework, you can run macOS in a VM (with a separate apple id).
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- "You're absolutely right. One should read and understand their own code. I did, and it looks great"
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Honest question: What do people actually USE OpenClaw for? The most common usage seems to be "it reads your emails!", that's the exact opposite of "exciting"...
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What would you propose as an alternative? Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts. That's not really worth the time, especially when you want summaries and not having to skim things yourself. Going from doing it manually on a regular basis to an autonomous agent turns a frequent 5-15 minute task into a 30 second one.
> Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts. The very first line in your readme is "CivicClaw is a set of scripts and prompts" though? And almost the entire repo is a bunch of python scripts under a /scripts folder. I looked at one randomly chosen script (scripts/sf_rec_park.py) and it's 549 lines of Python to fetch and summarise data that is available on an RSS feed ( https://sanfra…
I don't use OpenClaw, but I still run my Claude Code and Codex as limited macOS user accounts and just have a script `become-agent [cmd ...]` that does some sudo stuff to run as the limited user so they don't have any of my environment or directory access, or really any system-level admin access at all. They can use and write to their home directories as usual, which makes things easier to configure since those CLI h…
Yes, if/since that user have no access to your apple id and keychain... Not too much harder is using a VM: With Apple's open-source container tool, you can spin up a linux container vm in ~100ms. (No docker root) With Apple virtualization framework, you can run macOS in a VM (with a separate apple id).
Right, these are system accounts. They don't have access to anything except their own home folder and whatever I put in their .bashrc. `sudo` is a pretty easy sandbox by itself and lets me manage their home folders, shell, and environment easily just with the typical Unix-isms. No need for mounting VM disks, persisting disk images, etc.
I don't need virtualization to let Claude Code run. I just let it run as a "claude" user.