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Last week in Agent Security Update 5: The Pentagon Prompts

Community description: Last week I spoke at API Days in Melbourne, where I gave a talk on the OWASP Top 10 for Agents and...

Dev.to | Nov 2, 2026 | Will Velida

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On October 29th, versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 of the Clade Code VS Code extension were published to Cursor's VS Code extension marketplace for macOS and Windows that carried a malicious loader embedded in its extension.js bundle. Agent configuration files are acting as executable code inside coding assistants that most tools trust by default. Treat agent configuration like any other code and review it like any other executable.

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