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Between September 23 and 25: Claude Code 2.1.282 stopped project settings from enabling OpenTelemetry export (a hostile .claude/settings.json could previously point export at an attacker's collector) and stopped repo skills from pre-approving their own tools. Kimi Code 2.1.0 deferred project-local config until the workspace is trusted, blocked symlink escapes, and stopped a repository's git config from running commands during background git operations. Gemini CLI 0.61.0 gated build commands after build-file edits. Codex 0.157.0 tightened MCP and network boundaries. (Kimi Code releases) The shared threat is a cloned repo steering the agent through files it didn't write. Kimi 2.1.1 arrived a day later to "roll back some of the overly defensive changes" and re-enabled file watchers, so check which protections your version still has. When you evaluate a coding agent now, the question to ask is which files in a fresh clone it will act on before you approve the workspace.
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