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padolseytoday at 10:46 AM0 repliesview on HN

Agree! And this is why it is a bad idea IMHO for agents to sit at the abstraction layer of browser or below (OS). Even at the browser-addon level it's dangerous. It runs with the user’s authority across contexts and erodes zero-trust by becoming a confused deputy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem