alt Hacker NewsI don’t quite understand why people complains this is bad for AI agents. Local Code (https://releases.drawthings.ai/p/public-beta-of-local-code-b...) doesn’t require full disk access, when you ask the agent to deal with some files it doesn’t have access to, the built-in ‘permit’ tool will trigger the OS folder grant interface and that information will be recorded both by Apple and by the app so it can be revoked later if you want. That allows you to not give full disk access to the app to be useful.
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tekacs • today at 11:55 AM
Because it's deeply annoying/unenjoyable to have to click "Allow" in the middle of a flow, especially if you're not at the time actually _at_ your computer?
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tannertech • today at 12:52 AM
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If anything in a world with agents, these TCC dialogs just need to have an "allow once", just like Location Services has on iOS, and just like most harnesses have, a la "Do you want to allow $AGENT to run the following command?" A. Yes. B. Yes and don't ask for $command, C. No but instead just asking "Do you want to allow Claude Desktop access to files and folders on your Desktop?" A. Once. B. Always C. No
I think the issue comes in with terminal emulators and CLI harnesses. TCC permissions are inherited from the "responsible" process, so if you grant Terminal.app or ghostty.app FDA, you've granted zsh or bash or python or any goddamned thing you can run in a shell FDA.