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Re:An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's ... by hacker161 on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:15AM (#47921945)
You’re not alone, I’ve absolutely seen the same behavior occasionally with Opus in OpenCode where it takes actions it shouldn’t be able to in plan mode.
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Re:An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's ... by 8note on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:53AM (#47923232)
that sounds like opencode has a privilege bug too?
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Re:An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's ... by hacker161 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:05AM (#47935671)
Considering it happens across both opencode and other apps like Claude and Codex as well as across models it seems like something inherent to the models themselves and not necessarily a bug in the apps wrapping them. But maybe there’s more opencode et. al could be doing to prevent it.
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Re:An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's ... by eloisius on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:12PM (#47942131)
The harnesses are the part of the stack responsible for tools, so it would be a bug there, not the model. The model itself isn’t doing anything but generating tokens. The harness gives it a blob of text telling it which tools exist, and the model may choose to tell the harness to call one.
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