Air Security's Plugin4Shell lets a plugin be swapped during a background refresh while the agent reports the audited commit. Anthropic and OpenAI have patched, Copilot has no fix, and Google is retiring Gemini CLI.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption65
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
Researchers at AIR found that four AI coding agents accepted a Git checkout they never verified, and because no marketplace can close the gap, the repair now travels through agent version numbers inside each enterprise.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Microsoft's Defender Experts date the Contagious Interview campaign to December 2022. Its payload lands at the one hiring stage where a candidate is expected to clone and run a stranger's code. The same team tells employers to give staff a non-persistent VM for coding tests.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives58
- Confidence62
Auto-sync put whatever sat on disk into Git history, notebook outputs and stray credentials included. File-level staging fixes that, and it also breaks every handoff a team built on the assumption that saving was enough.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives52
- Confidence34
The pitch rests on a claim about your repository rather than about Harness's software, and with a free tier and click-through migration, the expensive part of testing it is the wiring you would have to move.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives82
- Confidence34
Wiz CIRT's poster puts 88 percent of its customers on hosted version control, where Git read and write events age out in a week and the fix, streaming them somewhere else, often sits behind a higher license tier.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
A step-limit abort was reported as a task failure after the transition had gone through. The harness described its own loop, not the system of record, and a retry was one keystroke away.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives38
- Confidence45
A joint police and cyber agency advisory puts fake-job crypto losses at S$15.1m. The more consequential detail is three exchange operations in four months, all running off the same tooling.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption71
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives49
- Confidence63
SOCRadar's record-level data puts 95 percent of identified victims before the poisoned LiteLLM packages ever hit PyPI. Anyone who rotated only what LiteLLM touched is still exposed.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence55