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		hansmayer 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to ... What if the agent were to create an alias to 'rm -rf' on my machine? I guess that would not have been blocked by your blacklist, right?

Fosowl 8 months ago [–]

Well it can't use text editor, so it would have to use echo 'rm -rf' with a shell redirection to a file, which would be detected.

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