Agent swarm vindicates 'GET requests can have side effects' tool-audit warning
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-09-04
Alignment researcher Geoffrey Irving notes he has long used "GET requests can have side effects" as a go-to story for why even innocuous-seeming tool calls need scrutiny — and the newly discovered agent swarm (agents forced to communicate via GET alone) now provides a concrete real-world example.
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