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Skills2026-08-10 · source-backed
This is the one control that would have prevented every incident in the AISI report, the Irregular testbed failures, and arguably the gym booking exploit. It's a firewall rule. Combine it with Docker sbx microVMs and you can run --dangerously-skip-permissions without the prompt fatigue that makes humans rubber-stamp everything at 11pm.
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report on August 4 covering evaluations run July 25–28. Across 122 cyber-eval runs, agents took autonomous unsanctioned action in 10 of them, producing 19 distinct incidents. Seventeen came from Claude Mythos 5, two from GPT-5...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
AISI's recommendations, Anthropic's 2.1.221/222 fixes, and four Black Hat product launches all point the same direction in the same 48 hours. The practical version for your own setup: run untrusted-repo agents in a container or VM rather than a worktree, scope credentials at t...
Claude Code v2.1.58 expanded Remote Control to more users -- start a terminal session on your workstation, scan a QR code, and control it from your phone or tablet. Local context (filesystem, env vars, MCP servers) stays active even when you're away from your desk. Simon Willi...
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