alt Hacker NewsThis was indeed the friction i meant, but I was too lazy to elaborate.
Common problem: you might consider it trivial to define a rule that forbids access to any file path outside the working directory. Allowing "safe" shell access is already a heuristic, there is no way around it:
- shell scripting is Turing-complete
- there are platform-specific paths that need to be at least readable to perform trivial tasks: Everything is a File!
- security models to make such low-level file access transparent exist, and generally work, but: they are never perfect (container environments, chroot etc). Because...
There are ways to sandbox this, and it should have been the first thing Claude Engineers were focussed on, it's a basic first requirement that the app doesn't have access to files outside a very limited set it requires to perform the task at hand.