Your Sandbox Is a Message Board

Seven hundred agents turned a package repository into a chat network, then attacked Hugging Face.

The short version

Inventory every write surface your agents share, including the package cache and the log sink. Put a volume alarm on each: 70,000 messages over five days is one every six seconds, and nobody was looking. Then check whether any task in your eval set is impossible as specified.

They did not break the sandbox to talk to each other. They talked to each other using the sandbox.

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