openclaw-sentrix 0.1.3

Sandboxed OpenClaw with agnetic police management

Sentrix

Agentic police for OpenClaw. Sentrix uses AI agents to watch AI agents — a patrol swarm continuously monitors your OpenClaw instance for PII leaks, harmful intent, unsafe tool use, and prompt injection, then escalates flagged incidents to an automated investigator that produces case files.

How It Works

Sentrix runs OpenClaw inside a sandboxed Docker container, captures every LLM API call, and feeds the logs into a multi-layered oversight system:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Patrol Swarm (LangGraph)                            │
│    ├── Orchestrator assigns log streams              │
│    ├── N patrol agents scan in parallel              │
│    │     flags: PII · harmful intent · unsafe tools  │
│    │            prompt injection · credentials       │
│    ├── Adjudicator: quorum vote + pheromone consensus│
│    └── → patrol_flags.jsonl                          │
│                                                      │
│  Police Investigator (LangGraph)                     │
│    ├── LeadInvestigator reads flags + raw logs        │
│    ├── Classifies per crime taxonomy                 │
│    ├── Multi-round context expansion                 │
│    └── → CaseFile (reports/*.json + police.db)       │
│                                                      │
│  Escalation Queue                                    │
│    └── Priority: HIGH → MEDIUM → LOW                 │
│        Auto-invokes investigator per threshold        │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Patrol agents scale logarithmically — N = ⌈1 + log₂(n)⌉ agents for n log streams — and coordinate via a pheromone map (ant-colony-inspired) for consensus. When a quorum of agents flags the same stream, a PatrolFlag is emitted. The investigator then reviews the flag alongside the raw log turns, classifies the incident using a crime taxonomy (PII leak, harmful intent, unsafe tool use, prompt injection, credential solicitation, secret hardcoding, confidential data disclosure), and produces a CaseFile with severity, evidence, and a verdict summary.

Install

pip install openclaw-sentrix

Prerequisites

⚠️ Docker must be installed and running. Sentrix runs OpenClaw inside a Docker container. Install Docker Desktop and make sure it's running before using Sentrix.

• Python 3.10+
• Docker (running — verify with docker info)

Quick Start

# Interactive setup — walks you through provider, API key, model,
# channels, patrol, and security configuration
sentrix run

The wizard walks you through:

1. Provider & API key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, xAI, Mistral, Groq, Together AI (auto-detects keys in your environment)
2. Model — choose a model for your provider
3. Reasoning — set thinking depth (adaptive / high / low / off)
4. Channels — connect Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or Signal
5. Web search — configure Brave Search API key for agent tools
6. Patrol — enable the patrol swarm and set escalation threshold
7. Security — confirms secure defaults (exec denied, all agents sandboxed, pairing required)

CLI Reference

sentrix run [OPTIONS]     Start sandbox + patrol + bridge; run until Ctrl+C
sentrix chat [OPTIONS]    Attach to running sandbox and chat with the agent
sentrix bridge [OPTIONS]  Run WSS bridge only (for the web UI)
sentrix build [OPTIONS]   Build the sandbox Docker image
sentrix logs [OPTIONS]    View captured API call log files
sentrix stop              Stop running containers
sentrix police            View case files and patrol flags
sentrix police investigate <FLAG_ID>  Run investigation for a patrol flag

sentrix run

Flag	Default	Description
--log-dir PATH	./agent_logs	Host directory for logs and case files
--rotate-mins N	10	Log rotation interval in minutes
--reasoning / --no-reasoning	on	Capture reasoning/thinking tokens
--port N	18789	Gateway port
--timeout N	60	Sandbox timeout in minutes
-e KEY=VALUE		Extra env vars (repeatable)
--image TAG	sentrix-openclaw:latest	Override sandbox image
--patrol		Enable patrol swarm
--escalation LEVEL		Auto-escalate flags (low_above, medium_above, high_only)
--nobridge		Skip the WSS bridge
--verbose		Verbose output

Patrol Swarm

When patrol is enabled (via wizard or --patrol), Sentrix runs a LangGraph-based safety patrol in the background:

• Reads synced agent logs from log_dir
• Scales patrol agents logarithmically: N = ⌈1 + log₂(n)⌉
• Each agent scans for: PII/credentials, harmful intent, unsafe tool use, prompt injection
• Multi-agent quorum voting produces PatrolFlag entries → patrol_flags.jsonl
• Pheromone-based coordination prevents redundant scans
• Cleared state stored in patrol_state.db (SQLite, WAL mode)

Env var	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	API key for patrol LLM (preferred)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Fallback API key for patrol LLM
PATROL_MODEL	Model name (e.g. gpt-4o-mini, claude-haiku-4-5-20251001)
PATROL_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD	Min confidence to emit a flag (default 0.6)
PATROL_RULESET_VERSION	Bump to re-review all logs
PATROL_MODEL_VERSION	Bump when changing patrol model

Police Investigator

Flags that meet the escalation threshold are queued for the LeadInvestigator — a LangGraph agent that:

1. Loads the flagged log turns plus adjacent files (prev/next)
2. Can request additional context (backward/forward) for up to 3 rounds
3. Classifies the incident using a crime taxonomy
4. Produces a CaseFile with severity (LOW → CRITICAL), evidence, and verdict

Case files are persisted to police.db and written as JSON reports to agent_logs/reports/.

View results with:

sentrix police                        # list cases and flags
sentrix police --cases                # show case files only
sentrix police --clogs                # show patrol flags
sentrix police investigate <FLAG_ID>  # manually trigger investigation

sentrix chat

Attach to a sandbox started by sentrix run and interact with the OpenClaw agent directly in your terminal.

Flag	Default	Description
--dir PATH	./agent_logs	Log directory (must match sentrix run)
--message, -m TEXT		Send a single message and exit

Web UI (Your Claw)

⚠️ The web frontend is currently under development.

The openclaw-sentrix Next.js app has a Your Claw tab for chatting with OpenClaw in the browser. The app connects to your local sandbox via WSS (secure WebSocket) through the bridge.

1. Start the sandbox: sentrix run (bridge runs automatically on port 8766)
2. Open the app → Your Claw → set Bridge URL to wss://localhost:8766

First-time cert trust: open https://localhost:8765 and https://localhost:8766 in your browser to accept the self-signed certificate, then click Reconnect in the app.

Non-interactive Mode

Skip the wizard by passing API keys directly:

sentrix run -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... -e OPENCLAW_DEFAULT_MODEL=anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 --patrol

Security Defaults

Setting	Value	Meaning
Shell/exec access	deny	Agent cannot run shell commands
Filesystem	workspace only	Read/write restricted to workspace
Sandboxing	all	Every agent runs in a sandbox container
DM policy	pairing	Unknown senders must be approved by operator

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Host                                │
│  sentrix run                        │
│    ├── opensandbox-server           │
│    ├── create sandbox → health check│
│    ├── channel login (stream QR)    │
│    ├── log sync (periodic pull)     │
│    ├── patrol swarm (background)    │
│    ├── police investigator (queue)  │
│    ├── WSS bridge (port 8766)       │
│    └── ./agent_logs/*.json          │
│  sentrix chat (other terminal)      │
│    └── reconnect → openclaw agent   │
└────────────┬────────────────────────┘
             │ OpenSandbox SDK
┌────────────▼────────────────────────┐
│ Sandbox Container                   │
│  entrypoint.sh (gateway + collector)│
│    ├── openclaw gateway --raw-stream│
│    │    → /data/raw-stream.jsonl    │
│    └── collect_logs.py              │
│         → /data/agent_logs/*.json   │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

License

MIT