AI agent rule goes viral: even "hand jobs" must route through the agent-scratch runner

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-14

A screenshot of an AI coding agent's rules went viral: one rule mandates that "hand jobs go through the agent-scratch runner rather than bare /tmp" — unintentionally hilarious terminology for what is actually a serious piece of agent workflow hygiene about routing scratch work through a managed runner instead of the shared temp directory.

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