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

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

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  • I was coding with cursor/grok a couple of weeks ago, and ran out of storage. Cursor made a request for disk access without any explanation, which agents often do to do their jobs. Then suddenly I had lots of free space. Thanks Grok! It actually only cleaned up only things that made sense, but still, yikes.
    by gotrythis
  • Could you please tell us more about your setup, project harness etc? not permissions (we all work with "Auto"), but what you actually told the agent it should/could do.

    And how did you intervene? Does it have permissions to send emails, or it only created the draft?

    This is a pretty interesting example and highly relevant, but details matter a lot if we want to use it as a lesson.

    by radu_floricica
  • Did you intervene or did Claude Code wait for your confirmation?

    Those are two vastly different things.

    by willmarch
  • You hooked up a chatbot to a harness that does API calls to myriad services. That's what you did. "Claude by himself" did not "do" anything. Just like they did not "break out of containment" and hacked companies.
    by andrepd
  • If you're willing to give Claude or any other AI tool access to your email and files, the least you should do is put guardrails around consequential actions.

    Reading a contract is one thing. Applying your signature and preparing to send it should absolutely require explicit human approval.

    by ayaniv
  • I have a open source repo that blocks explicit commands blocked on your pc from AI to run them you can use it https://github.com/moneytool/aegis-devops
    by moneytool
  • And you are happy because that is what you wanted and the reason why you gave a randomness machine access to your mails, correct?
    by notachatbot123
  • "Give overly-eager chatbot control over your personal email" probably has so many failure modes, we haven't even thought of one tenth of them yet. We've got a few years of this ahead of us. Pass the popcorn.

    (I see a RomCom script where the chatbot decides to get two people together, and acts as Cyrano de Bergerac for the handsome-but-lunkheaded farmboy, and bestie/confidant for the girl-about-town).

    by flir

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