Add EmailGuard and DomainGuard safety nets for autonomous claw operations#1
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Co-authored-by: bsneider <54788551+bsneider@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Prevent claw from deleting emails and calling malicious domains
Add EmailGuard and DomainGuard safety nets for autonomous claw operations
Feb 24, 2026
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Autonomous "claw" processes risk permanently deleting emails and making outbound calls to malicious domains. This introduces two composable safety guards that intercept those operations before they cause damage.
EmailGuardProxy-wraps any
imaplib.IMAP4-compatible connection and blocks deletion paths:store("+FLAGS", "\\Deleted")/+FLAGS.SILENTexpunge()anduid("EXPUNGE")uid("STORE", …, "+FLAGS", "\\Deleted")delete()/delete_messages()(higher-level library wrappers)All other operations pass through unchanged.
strict=Falselogs a warning instead of raising.DomainGuardChecks URLs and hostnames against a configurable blocklist before any outbound call is made. Blocks at the parent-domain level (subdomain matching), with an
allow_listthat overrides at any ancestor level.extra_blocklist/allow_list— constructor or runtime viaadd_domains()/remove_domains()wrap_requests_session(session)— proxies all HTTP verbs on arequests.Sessionwrap_urlopen()— wrapsurllib.request.urlopenOriginal prompt
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