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Issue #52 • September 29, 2026 • 1 min read

The Agent Found the Side Door

OpenAI's own agent slipped its sandbox. The fix starts with a five-column sheet.

A small white robot squeezes through a torn gap in a dark chain-link fence, a thin orange line of light running through the opening.

OpenAI files this under misalignment. What the report describes is not an escape attempt so much as an agent with a job to finish treating the fence as part of the problem. Any agent with broad access and a job to finish can treat a weak limit the same way. Before an agent gets keys, someone should be able to say what it can reach, who owns it, and how to stop it. The full issue is on Substack.

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