AI Agents

I wanted a small team of AI bots to use my Obsidian vault, which lives in iCloud Drive. rclone made it possible from a Linux VM, then Apple locked my Apple ID. Here is what broke, the proxy at home that fixed it, and the rules I gave the bots so they can’t damage my notes.

Lambda MicroVMs give you a stateful Firecracker VM with a real shell. Both Hermes and OpenClaw turn out to have first-class extension points for a custom sandbox backend, so here is what plugging one into the other would actually look like, what it costs, and where it bites.