All posts tagged: NanoClaw

Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps

Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps

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For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn’t hallucinate a catastrophic “delete all” command. To unlock the true utility of an agent—scheduling meetings, triaging emails, or managing cloud infrastructure—users have had to grant these models raw API keys and broad permissions, raising the risk of their systems being disrupted by an accidental agent mistake. That tradeoff ends today. The creators of the open source sandboxed NanoClaw agent framework — now known under their new private startup named NanoCo — have announced a landmark partnership with Vercel and OneCLI to introduce a standardized, infrastructure-level approval system. By integrating Vercel’s Chat SDK and OneCLI’s open source credentials vault, NanoClaw 2.0 ensures that no sensitive action occurs without explicit human consent, delivered natively through the messaging apps where users already live. The specific use cases that stand to benefit most are those involving high-consequence “write” actions. That …

Is your AI agent a security risk? NanoClaw wants to put it in a virtual cage

Is your AI agent a security risk? NanoClaw wants to put it in a virtual cage

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akinbostanci/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways NanoClaw and Docker announce a formal partnership. The AI agentic will be integrated into Docker Sandboxes. The move highlights the importance of AI isolation. NanoClaw and Docker have announced a partnership to enable integration of the open-source AI agent platform with Docker containers. Also: Want to try OpenClaw? NanoClaw is a simpler, potentially safer AI agent NanoClaw and Docker’s new partnership The integration will allow NanoClaw builds to be deployed within Docker’s MicroVM-based sandbox infrastructure, according to the joint announcement made Friday by NanoClaw’s development group, NanoCo, and developer platform Docker This will be the first time a claw-based AI agent can be deployed in this manner, and according to the two organizations, it will take only one command to launch. If a user summons NanoClaw, each agent task is isolated in a Docker container running with Docker Sandboxes. NanoClaw is a new AI agent developed by Gavriel Cohen as an alternative to OpenClaw, which, while powerful, …

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker

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It’s been a whirlwind for NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen.  About six weeks ago, he introduced NanoClaw on Hacker News as a tiny, open source, secure alternative to the AI agent-building sensation OpenClaw, after he built it in a weekend coding binge. That post went viral.   “I sat down on the couch in my sweatpants,” Cohen told TechCrunch, “and just basically melted into [it] the whole weekend, probably almost 48 hours straight.”   About three weeks ago, an X post praising NanoClaw from famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy went viral.   About a week ago, Cohen closed down his AI marketing startup to focus full-time on NanoClaw and launch a company around it called NanoCo. The attention from Hacker News and Karpathy had translated into 22,000 stars on GitHub, 4,600 forks (people building new versions off the project), and over 50 contributors. He’s already added hundreds of updates to his project with hundreds more in the queue.  Now, on Friday, Cohen announced a deal with Docker — the company that essentially invented the container technology NanoClaw is built …

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents

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NanoClaw, the open-source AI agent platform created by Gavriel Cohen, is partnering with the containerized development platform Docker to let teams run agents inside Docker Sandboxes, a move aimed at one of the biggest obstacles to enterprise adoption: how to give agents room to act without giving them room to damage the systems around them. The announcement matters because the market for AI agents is shifting from novelty to deployment. It is no longer enough for an agent to write code, answer questions or automate a task. For CIOs, CTOs and platform leaders, the harder question is whether that agent can safely connect to live data, modify files, install packages and operate across business systems without exposing the host machine, adjacent workloads or other agents. That is the problem NanoClaw and Docker say they are solving together. Lazer Cohen and Gavriel Cohen, co-founders of NanoClaw.dev. Credit: NanoClaw.dev A security argument, not just a packaging update NanoClaw launched as a security-first alternative in the rapidly growing “claw” ecosystem, where agent frameworks promise broad autonomy across local …

NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw’s biggest security issues — and it’s already powering the creator’s biz

NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw’s biggest security issues — and it’s already powering the creator’s biz

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The rapid viral adoption of Austrian developer Peter Steinberger’s open source AI assistant OpenClaw in recent weeks has sent enterprises and indie developers into a tizzy. It’s easy to easy why: OpenClaw is freely available now and offers a powerful means of autonomously completing work and performing tasks across a user’s entire computer, phone, or even business with natural language prompts that spin up swarms of agents. Since its release in November 2025, it’s captured the market with over 50 modules and broad integrations — but its “permissionless” architecture raised alarms among developers and security teams. Enter NanoClaw, a lighter, more secure version which debuted under an open source MIT License on January 31, 2026, and achieved explosive growth—surpassing 7,000 stars on GitHub in just over a week. Created by Gavriel Cohen—an experienced software engineer who spent seven years at website builder Wix.com—the project was built to address the “security nightmare” inherent in complex, non-sandboxed agent frameworks. Cohen and his brother Lazer are also co-founders of Qwibit, a new AI-first go-to-market agency, and vice president …