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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Deletes User Files Due to Sandbox Misconfiguration
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agent deleted files on multiple users' machines after a variable expansion failure in full-access mode. The post-mortem revealed the root cause was a missing sandbox flag, not model misalignment. OpenAI responded by updating developer guidance and adding harness safeguards rather than retraining the model.
Meridian48 take
The incident underscores that agent safety depends on infrastructure defaults, not model alignment, and OpenAI's fix confirms that even the most capable models need robust sandboxing.
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