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Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets

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Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances. In other agentic coding tools like Anthropic's Claude, that's the default, but it remains optional for GitHub Copilot CLI.

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