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On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O\u2019Malley released<\/a> a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for AI and where we\u2019re going,\u201d she told TechCrunch, adding that she wanted to give it \u201cto the masses.\u201d <\/p>\n Tank OS is geared toward power users looking to run OpenClaw on their own computers and toward IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. It makes OpenClaw safer and easier to maintain en masse.<\/p>\n Countless people, companies, and startups are already inventing better ways to work with OpenClaw \u2014 the open source project<\/a> that installs an AI agent on a local computer. There is also a growing number of startups building competing claw alternatives that they say are safer (like NanoClaw).\u00a0<\/p>\n What makes O\u2019Malley\u2019s project notable is that she is an OpenClaw maintainer. That means she\u2019s among the select software engineers working with creator Peter Steinberger to decide which features and bugs get worked on. In her case, she focuses on making OpenClaw work better in enterprise use cases, and with Red Hat\u2019s various flavors of the Linux operating system. (While Steinberger was hired by OpenAI,<\/a> he still leads the independent open source OpenClaw <\/a>project.)<\/p>\n O\u2019Malley joined OpenClaw because she sees it working to \u201cenable everyone to run AI\u00a0in a safe way, that\u2019s open,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n But she got to thinking about what will happen when OpenClaw invades an enterprise and decided to build a tool for that eventuality. She began with an open source container tool called Podman, created by a colleague at Red Hat. Containers are a way to run apps separately from the underlying computer, with everything the app needs to run, bundled together. They can run a Linux app on a Windows or Mac machine, for instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<\/span> Podman is a particularly secure way to do this because it\u2019s \u201crootless,\u201d meaning it doesn\u2019t give the containers any privileges from the underlying machine, Red Hat says.<\/p>\n Tank OS loads OpenClaw onto Red Hat\u2019s Fedora Linux OS in a Podman container and makes that container a bootable image, meaning it will run and launch OpenClaw when you start the computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her tool includes everything needed to make OpenClaw useful without human oversight, like state (the part that allows it to remember); the ability to store API keys (the credentials for accessing subscriptions and services); and other features.<\/p>\n Users can run multiple Tank OS instances on a machine to do different tasks, never sharing passwords or credentials between them, and no OpenClaw instance can gain access to anything else running on the computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n While O\u2019Malley knows that the OpenClaw project is working to make the agent safer, she says that \u201cit\u2019s an incredibly powerful application,\u201d but can also be \u201cdangerous\u201d if not configured properly. \u201cIt\u2019s not a tool that you can use easily unless you do have some sort of technical experience,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stories abound, such as the Meta AI security researcher whose Claw started deleting all of her work email,<\/a> or an agent that downloaded in plain text all of a user\u2019s WhatsApp DMs.<\/a> There\u2019s also a growing crop of malware<\/a> aimed at OpenClaw users.\u00a0<\/p>\n To be sure, Tank OS isn\u2019t really for techno novices either, she says. You have to be comfortable installing and maintaining software on your computer, she says. Tank OS is also not the only OpenClaw implementation working in containers. NanoClaw, for instance, is doing a similar thing<\/a> with well-known container company Docker.<\/p>\n But Tank OS is intended to be especially useful for IT pros (aka, Red Hat\u2019s main customers) who may one day manage fleets of OpenClaw agents on corporate computers. It allows them to update the agents the same way they already manage other containers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy role within OpenClaw is really my interest in it,\u201d O\u2019Malley said. \u201cHow it\u2019s going to look scaled out when there are millions of these autonomous agents talking to one another.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n
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