Build a Homedir Deny Fixture Before an Agent Reads `.netrc`
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Last Tuesday a coding agent “helped” with a flaky checkout script. The repo was tiny. The workspace was not. Someone had opened the agent at ~/work . checkout.sh called curl --netrc . The agent did what file tools do: it followed the comment, opened ~/.netrc , and quoted a machine api.internal line…
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- 2026-09-19 08:56 · DEV Community — AI
Build a Homedir Deny Fixture Before an Agent Reads `.netrc`