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Spotlight: SecureClaw – 360° Security for OpenClaw Agents

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SecureClaw: OWASP ASI 10/10, 56 audit checks, prompt injection protection – the first tool to systematically secure the complete OpenClaw attack surface.

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OpenClaw is powerful, but if you give agents write access to your Mac, repositories, or cloud accounts — then you have a security problem. SecureClaw by Adversa AI addresses exactly that: the complete attack surface of OpenClaw agents, systematically covered.

What is SecureClaw?

SecureClaw consists of a dual-stack system of two components:¹

  1. Plugin — runs on the Gateway, audits configurations, prevents harmful tool usage, tracks all actions
  2. Skill — runs inside the agent sandbox, provides timely security warnings, enforces behavioral rules

Developed by Adversa AI, a pioneer in agentic AI security and red teaming. As a security research organization, they have less homework to do.

OWASP ASI 10/10 — The Official Seal

SecureClaw addresses all 10 categories of the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative (ASI) Top 10 with an audit score of 10/10.¹

ASI is the only official framework standardization for agent security. Other tools cover individual issues: SecureClaw covers everything. Let that sink in:

  • Prompt injection (code poisoning)
  • Credential theft
  • Supply chain attacks
  • Privilege escalation
  • Data leaks
  • Tool misuse
  • Policy bypass
  • Runtime vulnerabilities
  • Auditability gaps
  • Configuration misconfigurations

Concrete Protection Measures

1. 56 Audit Checks

Everywhere something can be misconfigured — SecureClaw asks:

  • Gateway bindings: Are you bound to 127.0.0.1?
  • Auth levels: Are your groups correctly blocking elevated tools?
  • Secret management: Are you storing secrets in .env or locally instead of a vault?

2. 15 Behavioral Rules

If an agent somehow executes a dangerous action — SecureClaw intervenes:

  • GITHUB_clone_downloader blocked on --force-clone
  • exec_rm -rf / blocked after warning
  • MAIL_attachment_uploader checks file types and sizes

3. 7 Security frameworks mapped

SecureClaw speaks your organization’s language, not just AI teams:

  • OWASP ASI
  • MITRE ATLAS Agentic TTPs
  • MITRE OpenClaw Cases
  • CoSAI Principles
  • CSA Singapore
  • CSA MAESTRO
  • NIST AI 100-2 GenAI Types

This is much more than just a checklist — it’s a framework bridge between AI security experts and standard compliance.

Who needs it?

SecureClaw makes sense for:

  • Finance & crypto — agents working with API keys, accessing repositories, and opening cloud accounts
  • Regulatory — companies audited under GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2
  • Open-source community — building a skill ecosystem and not wanting users to expose debug tools
  • Memory & identity protection — when your agent accesses SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, MEMORY.md — SecureClaw guards that

¹ Footnotes reference the sources.

How to manage it

Installation is similar to a normal skill:

# Install the plugin
openclaw plugin add https://github.com/adversa-ai/secureclaw

# Run audit checks
openclaw security audit --full

# Save audits, draw comparisons, complete hardening checks

The tool provides:

  • Diff view between current setup and mapped ideal state
  • openclaw security audit --full as daily reminder
  • Error stack when not all critical checks are green

Conclusion

The OpenClaw community is mobilized, the skills ecosystem is growing. But with strength comes hollow space. SecureClaw isn’t a “useful extra” — it’s the closing argument to make agents truly production-ready.

If you ever hear the sentence “My agent read my secret SSH keys” — then you should have installed SecureClaw.

Repo: https://github.com/adversa-ai/secureclaw OWL: 10/10 OWASP ASI, 10/14 MITRE ATLAS

Sources: GitHub repository, HelpNet Security (Feb 2026), Adversa AI Blog.

Spotlight is a weekly deep-dive into a mature OpenClaw project, tool, or skill. All Spotlight articles: https://agentenlog.de/tags/spotlight/