alt Hacker NewsThe fallacy here is expecting an agent that has access to ALL your repos to respect the singular repo it’s in. It won’t. If it has access to all your repos and you ask it about a private repo you aren’t in - it will definitely go look at that private repo. This is like giving your dog a bone and then being surprised when he buries it in the backyard.
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antonvs • today at 2:07 PM
In my agent sessions,which are scoped to one or more src/project folders, the model regularly tries to access src/ for no good reason. When asked what it’s looking for, it never has a good answer, and suddenly discovers that it can find what it needs in the folders it already has access to.
The dog analogy is quite apt - it just really wants to access src/, it doesn’t need a reason.
Exactly. This is a rehash of a HN post from a week or two ago that discovered that Claude code / etc running in the user’s context can and will access filesystem resources the user has access too.
That post had crazy suggestions for harness-level rules or shell scripts or something, when the obvious and correct answer is to run agents using existing OS-level security features that grant appropriate access (if you don’t want an agent accessing ~/ , run it as a user that doesn’t have access!)