A Malicious Repo Can Now Run Code Before Your AI Agent Shows a Trust Prompt. I Verified the Defenses That Actually Work
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Last week a colleague shared a project with me as a zip file. I did what most of us do now: I dropped it into a folder, pointed my AI coding agent at it, and let the agent take a first look while I went to make tea. Two days ago I learned that this exact workflow is now an attack. Not a theoretical…
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- 2026-09-05 12:09 · DEV Community — AI
A Malicious Repo Can Now Run Code Before Your AI Agent Shows a Trust Prompt. I Verified the Defenses That Actually Work