Clawed and Dangerous: Can We Trust Open Agentic Systems?
Open agentic systems combine LLM-based planning with external capabilities, persistent memory, and privileged execution. They are used in coding assistants, browser copilots, and enterprise automation. OpenClaw is a visible instance of this broader class. Without much attention yet, their security challenge is fundamentally different from that of traditional software that relies on predictable execution and well-defined control flow. In open agentic systems, everything is ''probabilistic'': plans are generated at runtime, key decisions may be shaped by untrusted natural-language inputs and tool outputs, execution unfolds in uncertain environments, and actions are taken under authority del...
| Authors | Shiping Chen, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 27 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 27 March 2026 |
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