{"slug": "an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets", "title": "An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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 ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/29/ai-agent-security-safety-check/)\n\nThe post [An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/29/ai-agent-security-safety-check/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/29/ai-agent-security-safety-check/", "published_at": "2026-07-29 06:00:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 06:23:06.568480+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Elad Meged", "Novee Security", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-ai-agent-can-pass-every-safety-check-and-still-leak-secrets.jsonld"}}