Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw
AI Engineer Europe •
Developer advocate working at the intersection of AI, security, and software.
Hi! I'm Nick Taylor (@nickytonline), a software engineer and developer advocate focused on MCP, agentic AI, Zero Trust security, developer tooling, and open source. I'm currently in developer relations at Pomerium.
20+ years in software · GitHub Star · AAIF Ambassador · AWS Community Builder · Microsoft MVP
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A few of my best recent talks, tutorials, and practical notes on building with AI while keeping access secure.
Talks
Hands-On Tutorials
Harden Access to OpenClaw with Pomerium
Put OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI assistant with shell and file access, behind a web route and an SSH route, both gated by the same identity and Pomerium's context-aware policy.
iximiuz Labs •
Securing MCP Servers and MCP Apps with Pomerium
A hands-on course on securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and MCP apps with Pomerium, covering OAuth 2.1, upstream OAuth to APIs like GitHub, and per-user, per-tool authorization from dev to production.
iximiuz Labs •
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A production-ready starting point for building MCP servers in TypeScript.
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Production-ready starter for building MCP servers in TypeScript, with Vite, Vitest, Pino logging, and Docker support out of the box.
Role: Author & maintainer
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