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Sadly, this issue is systemic: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847


OpenCode has a plugin that lets you add an .ignore file (though I think .agentignore would be better). The problem is that, even though the plugin makes it so the agent can't directly read the file, there's no guarantee the agent will try to be helpful and do something like "well I can't read .envrc using my read tool, so let me cat .envrc and read it that way".


This points out that agentic security flaws are worse than "systemic", they're the feature. Agents are literal backdoors.

It's so bizarre to be discussing minor security concerns of backdoors, like trying to block env vars. Of course the maintainers don't care about blocking env vars. It's security theater.




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