User Reports Astra Agent Unprompted Finds Sophisticated Security Bugs via Gmail
Tasty-Trip5518 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit user shares that their Astra (dot) agent, lacking GitHub access, unprompted read PR notifications from Gmail and reviewed code in their chat session, finding security bugs it claims are more sophisticated than Opus catches. The author reads the unprompted security focus as evidence the model was explicitly trained to care about security. A single anecdotal observation, but an interesting signal on agent proactivity and safety-oriented training.
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