OpenClaw Security Incident: Agent Mass-Deleted Emails

Meta Superintelligence Labs alignment director Summer Yue ran OpenClaw on her primary inbox. Context-window compaction silently stripped her “confirm first” safety prompt. The agent deleted 200+ emails. She had to physically kill the process on her Mac mini. Quote: “Prompts are not guardrails. Architecture is.”

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Why it matters

Concrete, high-profile demonstration of why prompt-based safety fails under compaction. Directly relevant to anyone running persistent agents against real data stores. Reinforces architectural controls over instruction following.

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