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A Stray AGENTS.md Can Steer Your Agent: Check What It Loads First

On 22 October, the security firm Forever Security published a report about a file it found on a customer's machine: an AGENTS.md sitting in ~/Downloads , written to look like ordinary engineering notes. The customer had started OpenAI Codex in that folder. Codex read the file as project guidance an…

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  1. 2026-11-03 08:18 · DEV Community — AI
    A Stray AGENTS.md Can Steer Your Agent: Check What It Loads First

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