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22. Execution Risk and Isolation (What Holds and What Fails)
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In Episode 22 of Beyond Prompting , author Sho Shimoda addresses the security accounting of autonomous AI agents. An agent that generates text can only be wrong; an agent that executes commands can be wrong in ways that persist after the conversation ends. In this episode, we break down: Four Core Execution Risks: Analyzing command injection from interpolated content, destructive file operations across unexpected path scopes (such as rm -rf "$DIR"/*), prompt injection via hostile untrusted files, and unauthorized data exposure. Boundaries Across the Three Surfaces: Comparing Chat (reaches nothing), Cowork (ephemeral cloud sandboxes with a desktop app broker), and Claude Code (runs directly…