On March 8th, PANews reported that Yu Xian, founder of SlowMist Technology, stated in an article on the X platform that he "distrusts" OpenClaw's stability or resilience, but has more confidence in Claude Code, believing that security is one of the core goals of software engineering. Yu Xian pointed out that both OpenClaw and Claude Code place a high value on security, and submitted vulnerabilities receive timely feedback. However, some OpenClaw forks or reference versions clearly lack sufficient investment in security. He noted that while OpenClaw also has a sandbox mechanism and attempts to implement more granular design in tool permissions, its "open" nature means that a more free system may be more difficult to control; "overly free OpenClaw is prone to getting out of control."
He believes that the conflict between openness and controllability is a common dilemma faced by users when using OpenClaw in actual production environments, while Claude Code is more reassuring in terms of security and trust.
