--- title: ClawBands GitHub Project Looks to Human Controls on... description: A software engineer created ClawBands, a GitHub security middleware that adds human-in-the-loop approval controls to OpenClaw AI agents. The plugin intercepts... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/clawbands-github-project-looks-to-human-controls-on-openclaw-ai-agents-qkdntedzb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ClawBands GitHub Project Looks to Human Controls on OpenClaw AI Agents | daily.dev og:description: A software engineer created ClawBands, a GitHub security middleware that adds human-in-the-loop approval controls to OpenClaw AI agents. The plugin intercepts... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/clawbands-github-project-looks-to-human-controls-on-openclaw-ai-agents-qkdntedzb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QkDNtEDZb.png og:image:alt: ClawBands GitHub Project Looks to Human Controls on OpenClaw AI Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ClawBands GitHub Project Looks to Human Controls on OpenClaw AI Agents **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 5 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A software engineer created ClawBands, a GitHub security middleware that adds human-in-the-loop approval controls to OpenClaw AI agents. The plugin intercepts every tool execution—file writes, shell commands, API calls—requiring explicit human permission before actions execute. This addresses growing security concerns around OpenClaw, which has 195,000 GitHub stars but poses risks through shell command execution, credential leaks, and prompt injection vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, OpenClaw's creator Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to develop the next generation of personal AI agents, with OpenClaw transitioning to a foundation to remain open source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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