Mitchell Hashimoto(@mitchellh):Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban. As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.

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Co-founder of @Superlogical. Creator of Ghostty. 👻 Prev founded @HashiCorp, created Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and others.

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Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh

2026.06.19 13:59

Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban. As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.

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