"Lobster Fever" Behind the Scenes: Defense and Coexistence in the Age of Intelligent Agents

The spring of 2026 will be remembered as the year marked by a technological frenzy triggered by “Lobster.” This open-source AI agent, known as Open Claw, is recognized by its distinctive red lobster claw icon and has quickly become a phenomenon-level productivity tool widely discussed in streets and alleys.

Previously, the public’s understanding of AI mostly stayed at the “chat and question-answering” stage—humans ask questions, and large models provide text-based answers. However, the emergence of “Lobster”-type agents signifies a fundamental technological leap: they are no longer just “talking” digital advisors but truly “acting” digital agents. Users only need to give a command in natural language, and the agent can autonomously plan task workflows, reply to emails, search the entire internet for information, fill out data across different software, and even directly write and test code within a company’s internal systems. This technology, which highly integrates cognitive decision-making (thinking about what to do) with underlying physical execution capabilities (actually operating the system), completely disrupts the traditional human-computer interaction model and poses unprecedented challenges to conventional corporate information security defenses.

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