Agent URL Fetching: Breaking News or Basic Feature?
ZackKorman · x · 2026-08-26
Zack Korman criticized a headline about "agents asking inference providers to fetch URLs" as clickbait for the uninformed. Author xeophon defended the article, noting that major evaluation frameworks were unaware of this feature and had to patch it, and that they also found and disclosed security vulnerabilities in inference frameworks. This sparks a discussion on the line between basic agent capabilities and security research.
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