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Your Coding Agent Reads the Folder First: Scan the Workspace Before You Start It

A planted AGENTS.md in Downloads made Codex try to install malware in over 90 percent of test runs. The scan that stops it runs before the agent does, in one Python file. You clone a repository, open it in your coding agent, and start reading the README. Your agent started earlier than you did. Bef…

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  1. 2026-11-07 16:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Coding Agent Reads the Folder First: Scan the Workspace Before You Start It

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