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Who left this note for your AI agent? (A 2-minute check for Codex and Claude Code users)

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A web page can save an AGENTS.md into your Downloads folder without a single click. Your coding agent reads it as project rules. Here's what happened, what we saw in our own test, and the 2-minute check. Your Downloads folder is the only folder on your computer that strangers can write to. That's b…

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  1. 2026-10-26 10:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Who left this note for your AI agent? (A 2-minute check for Codex and Claude Code users)

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