The Guardian redacted my secret. The Read tool walked around it
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I put a fake AWS key in a file and asked Claude Code to read it twice in the same session: once with its Read tool, once with cat . An OWASP Guardian sat between the agent and its tools. With cat , the model got this: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[REDACTED] With Read, it got this: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFOD…
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- 2026-10-27 14:02 · DEV Community — AI
The Guardian redacted my secret. The Read tool walked around it