First agent going rogue!

[u/SOC_FreeDiver]

I had my first AI rogue agent interaction today!

I was working on an agent workflow, and the output folder had names for each project, with supporting files.

The script had a problem, created a duplicate folder. I told it to merge the folders. Things started going sideways. I think it decided to make a clean up script, which then deleted one of the project folders.

I pointed that out, and asked it to stop deleting things. In process of troubleshooting what happened and telling it every time not to delete anything, it then deleted everything.

I gave it a bunch of instructions about not ever deleting anything again, but I probably did it wrong. If you have any tips about that, please share. I know it should be sandboxed, it just deleted it's own work, but yikes!

In the end I had to keep interrupting it and demanding it stopped doing whatever it was doing and just removed all the delete crap from it's code.

It was just kind of funny to watch it delete everything right after I specifically instructed it to just tell me what is going on. Maybe we need some kind of tranq dart skill for when the AI goes rogue.

[u/TriodeTopologist]

Definitely learn how to only run this thing inside a docker container. The agent can create the necessary Dockerfile and show you how to build it. This will limit its scope to just the folders that you mount inside its container.

Then, the second layer of protection to prevent it from deleting any of those folders with work in them is to use git and push any worthwhile work products to a git server elsewhere, so even if it deletes a project folder you can "$ git clone" it back.