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I'll add that agents (CC/Codex) very often screw up escaping/quoting with their bash scripts and waste tokens figuring out what happened. It's worse when it's a script they save and re use because it's often a code injection vulnerability.


I want them to be better at it, but given how hard it is for me as a human to get it right (which is to say, I get it wrong a lot, especially handling new lines in filenames, or filenames that start with --) I find it hard to fault them too much.




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