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Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

342 points · 115 comments · csmantle

tancop · 1789731818 · focus · HN ↗
Closed source agents are a red flag no matter if its China or America. Always use an open harness with a good reputation and enough users that someone will notice if they push malicious code like this one here. Right now that's Opencode and Pi.
1. hypfer · 1789731991 · focus · HN ↗
  I wouldn't list Opencode as "good reputation".
  They had their own unbound "harness scans the whole user directory" oopsie and handled concerns about that by introducing code signing.
  Which, yes, does have absolutely nothing to do with that issue.
  I guess by now it is better, but to me they seem to lack the engineering culture necessary for a "good reputation" stamp.
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  Ref: <a href="https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/14925#issuecomment-4149189433" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/14925#issuecomm...
  among other issues.
  1. edude03 · 1789732114 · focus · HN ↗
    Their reputation is “bad” but not because of privacy concerns. I personally think they’re trustworthy
    my-huge-pony · 1789735892 · focus · HN ↗
    We use opencode with self hosted llm for privacy reasons. Good, right? Well, no, because opencode by default uses a "free" cloud model to summarize all chats even if a different model was configured as the main one.
    I wonder how many opencode users upload their private secrets to the cloud, while thinking they're using a self hosted model.
    Btw. I don't think this is malicious, just sloppy.
    esafak · 1789737443 · focus · HN ↗
    It uses gpt-5-nano through OpenCode Zen to generate the title unless you override `small_model`. <a href="https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#self-hosted-gitlab">https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#self-hosted-gitlab

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