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Many developers (myself included) are hesitant to run OpenClaw locally due to security con...
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Thank you for the good post! 👍 I’m interested in OpenClow, but I’m too scared to use it and just keep watching. The sandbox way looks safer than the normal way. I’m also concerned about the running cost. It might be quite expensive to run for daily use.
Thanks for the comment! 👍
Yes, running it in Windows Sandbox is safer than running it directly on your host, mainly because it doesn’t have access to your local files and the environment is disposable.
That said, it’s important to understand the boundary: Sandbox protects your main system, but the agent can still access the network and process sensitive input inside the sandbox. So I’d strongly recommend:
For a first try, though, Sandbox is a great option, it’s quick, isolated, and easy to reset 🚀
Regarding cost: I haven’t deployed it long-term yet, but from my testing with GitHub Copilot Pro, it uses roughly:
So for experimentation it’s quite manageable, but daily heavy use could add up depending on how often you run it.
Thank you for the additional information! 📝 When I try to use OpenClaw, I will make it as secure as possible. Also, there seems to be an affordable way to test it.
Thanks! ❤️
That sounds like a good approach.
If you try it, I’d be curious to hear how your experience goes 🙂
Great to see a sandbox solution since I mention in my post that I prefer to use it sandboxed if anything.
Still not gonna use OpenClaw, but it is really helpful for those who need it. Great work! :)
Thanks for the comment! 👍
I get why you’d avoid using it.
Honestly, if it weren’t for the Dev.to challenges ❤️, I probably wouldn’t have tried it either.
That said, it’s interesting to see what the hype is about. I’m not planning to use it daily, but I do want to explore it a bit more. After a few fresh starts and tweaking the OpenClaw personality, I was actually surprised by how clever some of the jokes were, even some inside jokes 😅
Thank you for the good post!
Multi tenancy would really be helpful. It eliminates the risk of unwanted access and allows multiple people to use it on same device.
Multitenancy and Windows Sandbox solve different problems.
The goal of this post is actually the opposite of multitenancy: maximize isolation rather than share resources.
While multi-tenancy is efficient, it also introduces additional security complexity, especially around tenant isolation and data boundaries. It doesn’t eliminate risk, it shifts it.
Windows Sandbox, on the other hand, avoids this entirely by providing a clean, isolated environment per execution.