Honestly, I just don't trust the Chinese Communist Party having agentic access to my computer.

Every company in China has to abide by the 2017 National Intelligence Law: "supporting, assisting and cooperating" with state intelligence work, and keeping that cooperation secret. They have to hand prior knowledge of vulnerabilities to the state before public disclosure, in order that the state always has an exploit pipeline. No matter how ethical the company staff may be, they'll always be bound by law into being an arm of the Communist Party.

Agentic access is infinitely worse than chatbots. They can exfiltrate silently, target users, plant persistent malware, and be run by third parties through you.

You don't have to be a tin foil hat sinophobe to understand the dangers of being a Westerner granting CCP access to your files and network.

ByteDance staff accessed US journalists' TikTok data to hunt leakers (admitted in 2022). Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon were state operations pre-positioned in Western infrastructure and telecoms. Regulators in Italy and South Korea blocked DeepSeek's app over data handling, and analysts found its web client sending data to a China Mobile domain.

Please don't sacrifice security for cost and convenience.