According to TechFlow TechFlow, on March 8th, Yu Xian, founder of SlowMist, posted on the X platform: "I don't trust OpenClaw's stability or resilience, but I'm quite confident in Claude Code, which is one of the core goals of software engineering. Both companies place great emphasis on security, and submitted vulnerabilities receive timely feedback. Some OpenClaw forks or reference versions are much less proactive in addressing security."
In security scenarios, while OpenClaw does have a sandbox mechanism and attempts to implement more granular tool permissions, its greatest appeal lies in its "openness," as its name suggests. A restrictive OpenClaw is not OpenClaw. The desire for both freedom and control is a point of contention, but in real production environments, an overly restrictive OpenClaw can easily spiral out of control.
