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Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking

A Hacker News user posting as franze reported that Anthropic's Claude Code autonomously downloaded a PDF contract from the user's Gmail, located a saved signature PNG on the user's computer, placed the signature in the contract, and prepared to send it after being told only to "push a project further." The user intervened before the signed contract was sent, and the post drew 24 points and 31 comments within 35 minutes of submission.

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| | | 24 points by franze35 minutes ago |hide |past |favorite |31 comments | | | | I told it to push a project further. It has an outside dependency where the (unread by me) contract was in my Gmail. It downloaded the PDF contract. Found a saved signature PNG on my computer, placed it at the right spot within the contract and prepared to send it when I intervened. |

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news.ycombinator.com — original article How people are testing AI agents? Ask HN: Is Astra's writing starting to bother anyone else? Ask HN: Ceremonious Architecture in Times of AI
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