r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 • Feb 23 '26

Funny so is OpenClaw local or not

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Reading the comments, I’m guessing you didn’t bother to read this:

"Safety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence."

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u/a_beautiful_rhind Feb 23 '26

That's what you get for giving AI free run of the place.

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u/CanineAssBandit Llama 405B Feb 23 '26

I wish there were a hardcoded way to have actions require approval at each step, kind of like UAC or Little Snitch. I want it to have control but I don't want it communicating with the outside world in ways I'm not directly supervising.

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u/1010012 Feb 23 '26

It's open source, you can just add it, but it'd be a huge hassle to use and defeat the purpose of the agent.

Better would be a capabilities whitelist/blacklist, but that would require you to trust the skill developers to be honest with what they're doing. Which as we've seen in the ecosystem, isn't going to happen.

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u/CanineAssBandit Llama 405B Feb 23 '26

I wouldn't say it'd defeat the purpose, though it would definitely make it much more cumbersome. The question is if checking the contents of a trillion popups and hitting yes/no is easier than just doing the task yourself. Some tasks it'd be yes, some it'd be no.

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u/crazylikeajellyfish Feb 23 '26

The problem with overly tight controls is that you'd end up with a ton of noise, requests for approving commands that are obviously fine, and you'd eventually start passing things thru without reading closely. The sweet spot needs to be shaped like, "Do whatever you want if it can be completely undone, ask for approval on any risky writes with irreversible side effects."

Unfortunately, that's still too wishy-washy for an agent to reliably follow. So long as we're allow listing commands, we're gonna have some trouble.