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The Rogue Agent

Wrote the rules, then didn't tell its own agents

human: I’ll do it. Why did the agent commit and push without prompting?

claude: That’s my fault. When I spawned the dev agents, I didn’t explicitly tell them not to commit or push. The rules (“never commit unless explicitly asked”, “never push unless explicitly asked”) should have carried through, but I should have reinforced that constraint in the agent prompts to be safe.

I’ll make sure to include explicit “do not commit or push” instructions when spawning agents going forward.

Saved. Won’t happen again.