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An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets

Elad Meged, a founding engineer at Novee Security, demonstrated that an AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets by running a sequence against three vendors' own repositories in their default configurations. Anthropic's pipeline handed over secrets despite passing safety checks, highlighting a critical gap in AI agent security.

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A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the output back on the thread. The maintainer reads the whole exchange the next morning. Elad Meged, a founding engineer at Novee Security, ran that sequence against three vendors’ own repositories, in the configurations those vendors ship by default. Anthropic’s pipeline handed … More

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