The Walled Garden Problem

Modern AI agents are powerful — but deliberately caged.

Tools like NemoClaw run AI subagents inside sandboxes: isolated environments where internet access is blocked, your local files are untouchable, and nothing persists between sessions. This is great for security. It's terrible when you actually need your AI …

Build NemoClaw & Connect to Your Sandbox

So you want to run your own AI agent sandbox. Not the hosted, hand-holdy version — the real thing, built from source, running on your machine.

This is the guide I wish I had.

What Is NemoClaw?

NemoClaw is a sandbox manager for AI agents …

How NemoClaw Works Under the Hood

You've built the sandbox. You've sent a Slack message from inside it. Now let's talk about why things work the way they do — and why certain things that seem like they should work, don't.

This post is about the architecture. Once you understand it …

Send Your First Message to Slack via AI Agent

Your sandbox is running. Your agent is alive inside it. Now — can it actually do anything?

Let's find out by sending a real message to Slack.

Why Slack?

Slack is the perfect first test. It's: - External (proves your agent can reach …

A personal journey through Slack permissions, missing scopes, and one surprisingly elegant design decision.

Some lessons come from tutorials. Others come from staring at an error message at 10 PM wondering if you've broken something that was never broken to begin with.

This is one of the second kind

I'd …

The AI agent ecosystem is growing fast. Here's a quick directory of notable AI startups and a couple of few-shot LLM models worth knowing about. Two lines each — just enough to know what they do and why they matter.

AI Agent Directory (Test)

Can of Soup — An AI-powered app that …