Foundations for Investigations of Agentic AI Systems from the Forensic Analysis of OpenClaw

arXiv:2604.05589 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-04-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-04-07

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: Accepted at IMF 2026 (15th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics), published in Digital Threats: Research and Practice. 20 pages. Code and experimental data available at: https://github.com/jgru/forensic-analysis-of-openclaw

DOI: 10.1145/3848419

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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