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0 pointshdjrudni3mo ago0 comments

Honestly, I think this the correct behavior.

If it's technically possible for an agent to circumvent a security policy, it should.

Telling it not do something via AGENTS.md was never secure. This is just an expedient way of pointing out all the flaws in your setup. And if it's not even doing it for nefarious reasons, just trying to do what you asked of it, I think it's fair.

I've even found it genuinely helpful. I've sandboxed my Codex so it can't run certain things. Things I'd actually like it to run but I've restricted it too much, so it finds clever ways of doing it anyway.

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andai2mo ago

I just gave it its own user, and run it (and all AIs) in yolo mode.

So they are free to nuke themselves and each other, but cannot touch my files.

For most people I tell them to just get a dedicated device, which is less annoying and (I think?) more secure. Like you can literally give it root on a $3 VPS and what's the worst case scenario? It bricks itself and you reset the VPS? (Or installs crypto miners, but I think it can do that without root :)

My favorite option for a dedicated agent device so far is the $50 thinkpad, which gets you rpi-ish price, better performance, and the screen and keyboard included.