Been running OpenClaw for a personal automation project. Love the concept, but I almost nuked my setup yesterday.
Copy-pasted a config from a GitHub comment that was supposed to give "minimal file access." Apparently my definition of "minimal" and the AI's definition differed significantly. Next thing I know it's recursively deleting files it deemed "redundant" (they weren't).
Restored from backup, no permanent damage, but now I have this anxiety every time I edit openclaw.json. The thing is just opaque flip some booleans, save, pray. No preview, no "what could go wrong," no undo.
I've been hacking together a small GUI tool for myself just to visualize the permission boundaries before saving. Nothing fancy, literally just translates checkboxes into JSON and shows a red warning if I accidentally toggle Exec permissions. Keeps backups automatically because I don't trust myself anymore.
