> my agent flies off the rails

Which, I've had it delete the entire project including .git out of "shame", so my claude doesn't get permission to run rm anymore.

Codex has fewer levers but it's deleted my entire project twice now.

(Play with fire, you're gonna get burnt.)

Wait, what? Can you please describe this shame incident?

Also, I have extremely frequent commits and version control syncs to GitHub and so on as part of the process (including when it's working on documents or things that aren't code) as a way to counteract this.

Although I suppose a sufficiently devious AI can get around those, it seems to not have been a problem.