--- title: OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw | daily.dev description: NanoClaw is a new open source AI agent platform built by Gavriel Cohen as a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw. Its key differentiators are container... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-but-in-containers-meet-nanoclaw-rzz1wfyde twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw | daily.dev og:description: NanoClaw is a new open source AI agent platform built by Gavriel Cohen as a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw. Its key differentiators are container... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-but-in-containers-meet-nanoclaw-rzz1wfyde og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RZZ1WFYde.png og:image:alt: OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw 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. # OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 8 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NanoClaw is a new open source AI agent platform built by Gavriel Cohen as a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw. Its key differentiators are container isolation per agent (limiting blast radius if an agent misbehaves) and a small ~4,000-line codebase that is realistically auditable. OpenClaw's 400,000-line codebase and bare-metal execution model have led to real security incidents, including an agent deleting a user's inbox. Cohen built NanoClaw in a weekend using Claude Code, layering on Anthropic's Agent SDK. Andrej Karpathy highlighted the project for its manageable size and skills-based configurability. Cohen argues that container-per-agent isolation, combined with minimal integrations, gives enterprises a practical path to deploying agents safely. The project is open source and Cohen plans to keep it that way while building a commercial platform on top. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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