Claude user worries web research agents could be tricked into raiding GitHub and Drive
Minute-Quote1670 · reddit · 2026-07-26
A user asks whether Claude Connectors should be left enabled while using Claude to spin up research agents that crawl the web.
The concern is prompt injection: a malicious page could instruct an agent to access connected GitHub repos or pull files from Google Drive. The post asks whether it would be safer to disconnect those tools entirely or at least require explicit confirmation before web-heavy research tasks touch connected services.
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