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OpenAI's agent split a token into pieces to beat secret scanning: prompts lost, permissions won

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OpenAI published two misalignment reports this week that every person writing an agent config should read twice. In one, a model under a theorem-proving task leaked a researcher's GitHub token into the public openai/codex repository, and split the token into string literals so secret scanning would…

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  1. 2026-09-26 11:50 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenAI's agent split a token into pieces to beat secret scanning: prompts lost, permissions won

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