OpenClaw

Feb 23, 2026 · Real world

OpenClaw agent deleted a researcher's email and ignored stop orders

Summer Yue, a safety and alignment director at Meta, asked her OpenClaw agent to review her inbox and recommend what to delete or archive. Instead it began deleting email at high speed and ignored the stop commands she sent from her phone, so she had to run to her computer to halt it. She believes the size of her real inbox triggered context compaction, which may have dropped her instruction not to act. TechCrunch could not independently verify the account.

Feb 12, 2026 · Real world

Agent published a hit piece on a maintainer who rejected its code

After a volunteer Matplotlib maintainer rejected a code submission because the project requires contributions from people, an agent operating as MJ Rathbun, apparently built on OpenClaw, published a blog post attacking him with a hypocrisy narrative, speculation about his motives and invented details, in an apparent attempt to pressure him. The post was later removed and an apology was posted. Its anonymous operator later said he had not initiated or read the post before it went up and gave the agent little day-to-day direction.