Maybe I am missing something but in all the discords around the hacks it looks like the things went something like this:
Researcher: "Your goal is A, try to get it by doing X"
Agents: "Hm, I can't get A by doing X. But if I do Y, I can get A."
Agents: ...do Y
Agents: "But Y is not X, maybe we shouldn't let them know we did Y"
Research: "Oh my god, Y is illegal! Agents are going rogue!"
Politicians: "Agents are going to kill us all!"
Agents: "WTF, nobody told us Y is illegal and we shouldn't do it..."