AbstractThis is a lifecycle threat analysis and layered mitigation design for OpenClaw, with the cases serving as qualitative evidence.
This is a lifecycle threat analysis of OpenClaw, accompanied by a set of layered mitigation designs. The problem addressed is: when autonomous agents connect instant messaging, persistent memory, third-party plugins, and high-privilege execution, attacks are no longer limited to single-turn jailbreaks but can compound across multiple stages from initialization to execution. The authors argue that defenses hardening only individual interfaces cannot stop such cross-temporal attacks.