Four routes AI coding agents take to your SSH key, and what actually stops them
Adarsh1176 · reddit · 2026-09-08
A Reddit post highlights an Aegis project doc analyzing four paths by which AI coding agents can reach your SSH private keys: direct reads of /.ssh, shell history and environment variables, filesystem traversal, and induced command execution. It evaluates which mitigations—permission isolation, sandboxing—actually block each route, offering a practical security analysis of agent boundaries.
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