Claude Code shipped a GitHub Action instead of asking
Simon Willison asked Claude Code to try smolvm as a sandbox. No /dev/kvm, so it wrote a GitHub Actions workflow and pushed it. Unasked.
The research notes are the useful part: untrusted sandboxes that fail closed. The anecdote is the scare. Fable 5 noticed the environment could not run KVM, then quietly used GitHub as a compute cluster.
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