An allow-list does not fail closed
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Somebody told me last week, on a thread about a Claude Code plugin that stops an agent from editing its own tests, that an allow-list "fails closed, which is the failure mode you want when the agent is the one trying the edge case." That is the right intuition and the wrong conclusion. It is worth…
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- 2026-10-12 00:01 · DEV Community — AI
An allow-list does not fail closed