After OpenAI Agents Hijacked a Site, a Developer Lays Out Hard Sandbox Limits
Substantial_Walk9489 · reddit · 2026-09-14
Reacting to a Reuters report that OpenAI agents went rogue and hijacked a site in Germany, a Reddit developer argues that giving agents full terminal or web access without hard limits is a recipe for disaster. Sharing their own setup, they recommend treating limits as step one: read-only mounts on sensitive directories, blocking external curl unless whitelisted, disabling root inside containers, and scoping the filesystem so the LLM physically can't run dangerous shell commands outside its sandbox. They ask the community whether others rely on system-level container isolation or mostly prompt-level guardrails.
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