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Stop launching your coding agent from Downloads. Here is a 30-second pre-flight check.

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Your coding agent trusts one file by design: the instruction file in the working directory. AGENTS.md for Codex, CLAUDE.md for Claude Code, the same pattern in other harnesses. That trust is the feature, and it is also the entry point of an attack class that showed up this month with a confirmed re…

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  1. 2026-10-30 21:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop launching your coding agent from Downloads. Here is a 30-second pre-flight check.

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