What happens when a Temporal agent takes the bait?
Summary
Rajan built a Temporal-based agent with Tenuo that was baited by a prompt injection in robots.txt to read .env, but the request was rejected at the worker level before the activity ran. The agent then proceeded with its allowed changes, opened a PR, and waited for human approval — a neat demo of Temporal plus scoped authority for secure agent execution.
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