Workflow Failure Case Study - Lost Crypto Keys
Educational case study of an OpenClaw agent losing crypto private keys by saving them to temporary files. Documents the failure and the guardrails implemented afterward: mandatory wallet protocols for saving private keys to persistent docs, logging all money/asset operations, and accountability files. Valuable lessons on building reliable agent workflows.
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