Your coding agent runs a shell on your machine. I audited mine.

A coding agent that can run bash on your laptop is a remote shell on localhost. It has that threat model whether or not anyone designed for it — browser drive-bys, DNS rebinding, curl | bash, the twenty years of localhost-daemon mistakes the web already made and wrote down. Last week wren.wtf published a teardown of opencode: Stop using opencode. Read it in full. The headline was a real CVE — a default HTTP server with permissive CORS and an endpoint that ran arbitrary shell commands, so any website you visited could take the machine. I maintain agentproto, an open runtime that does the same dangerous thing on purpose: a local daemon that lets agents run commands, read files, and open tunnels on the user's machine. So I read the teardown as a checklist and pointed it at my own code. Below is what I found, what I changed, and — the part that transfers — the methodology, so you can run it on whatever agent tool you use. The one idea "Textual command filtering is th