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

> Source: <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/29/ai-agent-security-safety-check/>
> Published: 2026-07-29 06:00:10+00:00

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/)

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