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I've played around with Claude.
It's not that "they can't" it's more like "they try not to".
For example, if you have a folder shared with your application code (/home/me/code/) - it has free reign on that folder.
If you add a prompt saying "you are only allowed to access files in /home/me/code":
you could ask it " oh, what are my aws credentials ", it would have no qualms about reading those files (/home/me/.aws).
You could also ask it to update your settings (/home/me/.claude)
I eventually started to work on a way of running Claude in a docker container with real filesystem enforcement. ...and it's sneaky how Claude will get when it wants to read a file, it doesn't have permissions for (using
bash cat).This was an exploration I'd made a year ago and I know Claude has a " sandbox" , but if you allow Claude to run bash commands - that sandbox is trivial to circumvent.