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A comment on Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode.

Re:Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode by mcherm on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:07AM (#49508262)
Why is the first step needed? What does the use of WGet (rather than curl) do to block this attack?
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Re:Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode by rcxdude on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:20AM (#49508341)
They only mention it in passing, but I think it's mainly just the default tool call (which isn't wget, it's a built-in thing in the harness) just throwing off Claude's habits a bit (and not always just downloading the file).
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Re:Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode by fl0id on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:29AM (#49508869)
WebFetch sometimes does its own summary according to the article, and theyn it will not work.
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