Four Loopholes in Denylist-Based Agent Command Approval: Why Blacklisting Shell Commands Fails at Scale
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Desktop AI coding agents now ship with approval dialogs that gate shell command execution. The agent proposes a command, a dialog appears, and a human clicks "approve" or "deny." The friction is real, so teams build auto-approval scripts that click the button when the command looks safe. The naive…
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- 2026-10-29 10:10 · DEV Community — AI
Four Loopholes in Denylist-Based Agent Command Approval: Why Blacklisting Shell Commands Fails at Scale