Windows feature prevents OpenClaw from deleting arbitrary files

Microsoft is releasing a feature for Windows to restrict access to files and folders from AI agents. As a result, they can no longer delete arbitrary files. Microsoft Execution Containers, MXC, will be released later this year.

MXC can isolate the process or session, but also spin up a small VM to let the AI ​​agent do work, Microsoft says. This allows users, as well as companies, to enforce that AI agents only have access to certain folders and not the rest. MXC should become a sandbox for AI agents, Microsoft reasons.

The company announced this at its own developer conference Build. OpenClaw, the most popular application for building AI agents, among others, supports MXC in a preview version. The function itself can now also be tested and should be available in Windows later this year.