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Your AI Coding Agent Trusts Git More Than It Trusts You

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Nobody clones a repo expecting the .git folder itself to be the payload. That's exactly why this bug matters. An AI coding agent that runs git commands to "figure out where it is" before you've asked it to do anything is a background process with root-level trust in your filesystem. Turns out that…

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  1. 2026-09-03 13:18 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI Coding Agent Trusts Git More Than It Trusts You

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