What "Code That Runs Before You Click Trust" Means for AI Coding Tools (Claude Code Case Study)
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The trust dialog in an AI coding tool is supposed to be the security boundary that gates everything the agent does inside a workspace. External security researchers recently published a technical write-up of arbitrary code execution paths in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI that fired before that dialog appeared. Anthropic patched the disclosed paths quietly in December 2025; the public write-up landed on April 30, 2026. This article is not just about Claude Code.