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OpenClaw v2026.5.25-alpha: Sub-Agent Context Isolation Limits Data Leakage by Default

OpenClaw v2026.5.25-alpha.1 limits default sub-agent bootstrap context to only AGENTS.md and TOOLS.md, keeping persona, identity, user, memory, heartbeat, and setup files out of delegated workers. Also ships sanitized diagnostics spans for gateway secret preparation and bounded skill usage metrics without exposing raw paths or session identifiers.

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A runtime middleware that enforces per-skill and per-subagent data boundaries on existing OpenClaw installations without requiring migration

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OpenClaw's sub-agent architecture leaks context by default. v2026.5.25 added config-level isolation (limiting bootstrap files), but runtime data flow between skills and sub-agents remains uncontrolled. Karpathy publicly called the 400K-line codebase a 'vibe coded monster' and cited the security attack surface as the reason he won't run it with private data. A middleware layer that intercepts agent-to-agent and skill-to-system calls at runtime, enforcing granular data boundaries per skill and per sub-agent, would let the 500K+ existing OpenClaw users harden their setups without migrating to NanoClaw or buying enterprise solutions from Cisco.

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