Security

Sweep your computer for forgotten old installs and exposed dev servers

Pavel Svitek ran a public security checklist through their coding agent, which flagged old Node versions, outdated libraries in long-running agent servers, clients trusting compromised certificates and a dev server reachable from the network, then fixed each one after asking.

Agent(s): Claude Code, Codex
Source: X post (2026-10-23)
Verified: 2026-10-24

Try it yourself

Prompt idea: “Check this computer for security leftovers: old runtime versions, outdated libraries in long-running servers, stale trusted certificates and dev servers reachable from the network. Report what you find, then ask me before every fix.”