MaskClaw: Edge-Side Personalized Privacy Arbitration for GUI Agents with Behavior-Driven Skill Evolution
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: GUI agents rely on screenshots to infer intent and operate across applications, but these screenshots often contain private messages, medical records, payment credentials, and workplace-specific workflows. Privacy decisions in this setting depend on task, recipient, application state, and user role, yet static PII detectors miss these boundaries and cloud-side VLM reasoning can upload the raw screen before deciding what should be protected. We present MaskClaw, an edge-side privacy arbitrator for GUI agents. MaskClaw extracts local visual evidence, retrieves user- and task-specific policy memory, and decides Allow, Mask, or Ask before raw screenshots leave a trusted user- or organization-controlled environment. In five designed skill-evolution scenarios, it turns corrections, cancellations, and edits into reusable privacy skills checked by a sandbox gate. We introduce P-GUI-Evo, a benchmark built from real UI patterns, reconstructed HTML screens, and sanitized labels. Experiments show that pattern matching, cloud reasoning, and routing alone tend to over-confirm, over-mask, or expose raw screenshots under the same protocol. The artifact is available at https://github.com/Theodora-Y/MaskClaw.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7162689700
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