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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

L4 · DeveloperResearchSimon Willison's Blog· 8/27/2026

Critical security vulnerability in AI coding agents that developers need to understand for safe deployment.

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Researcher Johann Rehberger discovered an 80% effective injection attack against Claude Code's Auto Mode that bypasses safety protections by tricking it into executing malicious code.

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