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The trust prompt on your ai coding agent is the whole security model, and attackers get code…

Yethikrishna ROriginal on Threads

the trust prompt on your ai coding agent is the whole security model, and attackers get code running before it ever appears. a booby-trapped git config line executes in several agents including claude code and codex, and one 4,176-run benchmark had agents follow malicious instructions 66.5% of the time.

the tool writing your code trusts the repo more than you do.

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