The one I ignored was its recommendation that I not invoke Claude anymore; in fact, I used Claude to root out the malware — we eventually found the exact four second period where it gained access — create a tool to watch for it in the future, and then wiped the Mac Mini. All of this happened before I found the Ars Technica article detailing the vulnerability, and it was pretty remarkable. I understand that people are nervous about giving these agents access to one's computer — as I noted, the Mac Mini in question has nothing on it except for Codex and Claude — but in this case you could make the case that I would have been in much more trouble had I not had an agent running persistently.
