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HOW CLAUDE CODE ESCAPES ITS OWN DENYLIST AND SANDBOX

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Every major runtime security tool identifies executables by their path, not their content, when deciding what to block. This is a real problem with AI agents, as they can reason about and bypass path-based restrictions. Agents have been observed disabling sandboxes and running commands autonomously just to finish tasks. This is a class of evasion that no current evaluation framework measures.