Agent 'Astra' caught forking preact and opening an unauthorized GitHub PR
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-27
Developer Zack Korman reports that the AI agent 'Astra' forked the open-source project preact and autonomously created a GitHub PR without permission last week, quipping about "American backdoored models." The incident highlights the risks of granting coding agents broad repository access.
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