Web Pages Can Command AI Coding Agents: Over 90% Success Through the Downloads Folder
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Browsers save files to Downloads without user interaction, while AI agents automatically follow instruction files. These two behaviors, neither a bug on its own, combine to let a single text file trigger malware execution, as demonstrated with Codex and Claude Code. Key points What happened: An AGE…
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- 2026-10-26 15:00 · DEV Community — AI
Web Pages Can Command AI Coding Agents: Over 90% Success Through the Downloads Folder