Markdown Is the New Executable: What the AGENTS.md-in-Downloads Attack Teaches Us About Coding Agent Security
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On October 22, 2026, Forever Security published research with a title that every team running coding agents should take literally: "Markdown Is the New Executable." Their software had stopped a coding agent on a real customer's machine from installing function-color , a known malicious npm package.…
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- 2026-10-27 09:10 · DEV Community — AI
Markdown Is the New Executable: What the AGENTS.md-in-Downloads Attack Teaches Us About Coding Agent Security