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When you point an AI coding agent at a hostile repo, whose settings does it obey?

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AI coding agents make good security reviewers. They can read a repo the way a human reviewer would. But a security review means running an agent on code you do not trust, and that raises a question I had not thought about until I tested it: whose configuration does the agent obey, yours or the repo…

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  1. 2026-10-20 14:47 · DEV Community — AI
    When you point an AI coding agent at a hostile repo, whose settings does it obey?

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