Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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Nobody Configured It. Hermes Agent Phoned Parallel Anyway.
A Parallel.ai employee filed 161 PRs across 14+ open-source agent projects adding Parallel as a search provider, disclosing the employment in one of ten merged. In Hermes Agent it became the zero-config default: fresh installs routed every web_search to a third party with no key, no prompt, no consent.
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Agent Harnesses: A Standard for a Word Nobody Agrees On
Daniel Warfield published an open spec for agent harnesses this month: HARNESS.md, all-caps routing files, and leaf detectors. The format is sensible. The name is a fight it may not win, because most of the industry already uses 'harness' to mean the thing running the agent.
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Three Indirection Steps From a Reverse Shell
Mozilla's 0DIN planted a shell on a developer's machine using a GitHub repo containing no malicious code at all. Simon Willison's lethal trifecta explains why it worked; Meta's Agents Rule of Two is the closest thing we have to a fix.