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I mean it's hard to tell if this story is even real, but on a serious note, I do think Anthropic should only allow `--dangerously-skip-permissions` to be applied if it's running in a container.

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How exactly do you determine that you are running in a container?

I asked Claude and it had a few good ideas… Not bulletproof, but if the main point is to keep average users from shooting themselves in the foot, anything is better than nothing.

I'm not sure how much you should do to stop people who enabled `--dangerously-skip-permissions` from shooting themselves in the foot. They're literally telling us to let them shoot their foot. Ultimately we have to trust that if we make good information and tools available to our users, they will exercise good judgment.

I think it would be better to focus on providing good sandboxing tools and a good UX for those tools so that people don't feel the need to enable footgun mode.

Oof, you are bringing out the big philosophical question there. Many people have wondered whether we are running in a simulation or not. So far inconclusive and not answerable unfortunately.

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