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Re:Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM... by vqtska on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:07AM (#48893880)
Sure, if you assume the agent will be hostile on you. I thought it's just so the agent doesn't accidentally rm -rf / on you
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Re:Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM... by killerstorm on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:11AM (#48893930)
The agent might install hostile software, e.g. a npm package. Unfortunately, very common problem nowadays.
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Re:Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM... by pigeons on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:10AM (#48893919)
They do try privilege escalation unprompted.
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Re:Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM... by Retr0id on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:26PM (#48895024)
There are documented instances of LLMs casually using LPEs in order to achieve an objective: https://xcancel.com/sluongng/status/2060746160558543217

And that's without anything like prompt injection happening.

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