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A Git Config File Can Hijack Your Coding Agent. Here's the Fix List.

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A malicious git config can run code inside seven coding agents before any approval prompt. Three recent disclosures (GitSpawn, BragJack and Salesbleed) show agent attacks that never needed to beat the model. They went around the approval prompt, the browser boundary or the URL filter instead. If yo…

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  1. 2026-10-14 07:03 · DEV Community — AI
    A Git Config File Can Hijack Your Coding Agent. Here's the Fix List.

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