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Show HN: BetterClaw – Compile a paragraph into a workflow that gates agent tools

Hi HN, I built BetterClaw after watching the PocketOS incident on April 25: a Cursor agent running Claude deleted a company's entire production database in 9 seconds, then zapped the backups. The agent had access to a Railway MCP server with destructive tools, and "be careful" in the system prompt didn't bind anything.BetterClaw takes a different angle: you describe the workflow you want in...

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Thanks for sharing the journey. What did you do in terms of security for the receptionist? I suspect someone can trick the agent through things like prompt injection.
It's really hard to be a generalist and better than all the specialists at everything. OpenAI wants to focus on the G in AGI, and optimizing for ecommerce is just not that interesting to them, so of course it can't compete with Walmart.