Postmortem: Path Allowlist Matched the Client CWD, Not the Job Root
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Remote path allowlists fail when job root and client cwd diverge. A reconstructed lab incident shows a fail-open matcher. The durable fix binds every write to a server-side job root. Incident summary An agent job trusted relative paths from a client allowlist. The matcher resolved those paths on th…
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- 2026-09-17 06:27 · DEV Community — AI
Postmortem: Path Allowlist Matched the Client CWD, Not the Job Root