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If you want your agents to be truly useful, you need to give them tools, and the more open-ended the tools, the more useful the agent is likely to be. A shell is one of the most versatile tools there is: it lets an agent act on your computer with ease. But with that power come risks. In this article I explore the difficulties of building an “auto mode” that watches what your agent does, to save both you and your agent from shooting yourselves in the foot.