Air-gap

Deployment with no network connection to untrusted networks — typically no internet access at all.

Air-gapped deployments are the strongest network-security model. For self-hosted AI, air-gap mode requires local LLMs (no cloud API calls) and offline updates. ZeroClaw and IronClaw both ship genuine air-gap modes.

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