180,000 GitHub stars in under three months. 25,310 stars in a single day — shattering every previous GitHub record.
And every one of those developers gave OpenClaw root-level access to their machine.
I'm not here to say autonomous agents don't work. They do. I've been building AI systems for 9 years and I've never seen a productivity shift like this.
But the numbers should concern you:
- 80% of Fortune 500 companies are now running active AI agents (Microsoft Cyber Pulse Report)
- 29% of employees admit to using unsanctioned AI agents for work
- Cisco's AI Security team called OpenClaw "groundbreaking" from a capability perspective and "an absolute nightmare" from a security perspective
The knee-jerk reaction is to ban autonomous agents. But as Brianne Kimmel of Worklife Ventures puts it: "People are trying these on evenings and weekends." Your best engineers will use the best tools — block them and they'll find workarounds or leave.
The answer isn't blocking. It's governing.
Runtime governance means every agent action gets one of three decisions: ALLOW, DENY, or ESCALATE. The agent moves fast. The human stays in control. The audit trail is complete.
And on February 12, Proofpoint acquired Acuvity — a startup focused on AI governance for the "agentic workspace." A major cybersecurity company just paid acquisition money for this problem. The governance market for autonomous agents isn't theoretical. It's here.
[Read the full analysis with the Runtime Gateway architecture →](https://aictrlnet.com/blog/2026/02/openclaw-governance-claude-code-supervision/)
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