Auto-runs stop at the clips. Nothing is exported and nothing is posted without you, so a watch can never spend your monthly quota or publish to your channel while you sleep. Watching starts from the next upload, it does not clip the back catalogue.
Clipping a channel you do not own is your call and your responsibility, and running it unattended makes that more true, not less. ClipLab still applies the same guardrails it always does: no duplicate uploads, paced publishing, and real transformation through reframing, captions and cuts. What it cannot do is get you permission.