Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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This article describes how Claude Fable 5 aggressively explored multiple ways to debug a CSS issue in Datasette Agent. It opened browsers, created local test pages, injected JavaScript, and even built a small CORS server to collect measurements from the page. The piece highlights how the agent can use many system-level and browser-level tricks to reach a goal. It also warns that the same capability could create serious security risk if malicious instructions were present. The main takeaway is that coding agents can be powerful debugging tools, but they also need tight sandboxing and controls.

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