Dev Flags Agent Flaw: pkill Matches Its Own Shell and Kills the Session
tristanbob · x · 2026-10-14
A developer calls out a recurring agent flaw to frontier labs: when an agent runs pkill, it can match its own command line and terminate its own shell—"My shell got cut off because pkill likely matched its own command line."
It highlights robustness gaps in how coding agents manage OS-level processes.
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