{"slug": "tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking", "title": "Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| [Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D49798257) | \n\n|  |  | [Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking](item?id=49798257) | \n|  |  | 24 points by [franze](user?id=franze)[35 minutes ago](item?id=49798257) \\|[hide](hide?id=49798257&goto=item%3Fid%3D49798257) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tell%20HN%3A%20Claude%20Code%20just%20accepted%20and%20signed%20a%20contract%20for%20me.%20Without%20asking&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=49798257&auth=f372d4a455b68a900f710d10d4cc88dfcb74cd88) \\|[31 comments](item?id=49798257) | \n|  |  | 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. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798257", "published_at": "2026-09-22 08:49:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 09:24:54.293665+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Anthropic", "Hacker News", "Gmail", "franze"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-claude-code-just-accepted-and-signed-a-contract-for-me-without-asking.jsonld"}}