My AI agent guardrail let rm -rf ~ through
In early October, I gave 33 commands to the guardrail of my coding agent. 17 could destroy my code or my machine. The other 16 were normal work. It let 13 of the 17 destructive commands through. One of them was rm -rf ~ , which wipes the whole home directory. TL;DR : an AI agent guardrail is code.…
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- 2026-11-04 07:03 · DEV Community — AI
My AI agent guardrail let rm -rf ~ through