So I was- I was working in the shed on the weekend, tuning up this old Suzuki trail
bike, right?
And she backfires.
Just this massive *bang*, and- and suddenly my automatic garage door starts opening
itself.
It- it was like a loose parser or something, just getting completely confused by a
stray signal.
And- and that made me think of the new Claude Code update- oh,
by the way, this episode is brought to you by Jellypod AI- but yeah,
Claude Code version 2.1.214, which came out on July 18, 2026.
They literally had to rebuild how their Bash permission analyzer handles stray
signals, so to speak.
July 18, 2026.
Yeah, that- that v2.1.214 patch is huge for safety.
Because, I mean, if your parser has a loose sensor, an AI agent can basically write
files wherever it wants.
Especially with the way it- it used to handle directory scoping.
Like, they completely changed the single-segment dir/** allow rules.
Yeah, that- that directory thing was wild.
Before this, if you had an allow rule like, uh, Edit(src/**),
you'd think it only allows edits in the root src folder, right?
But it was actually auto-approving writes to nested directories,
like, deep down.
Like modules/libs/src/config.json.
That is- that is a massive security hole if you're trying to keep the agent in a
sandbox.
Exactly, modules/libs/src/config.json should
*never* have been touched by a rule meant for the root src.
So now, they strictly scope that dir/** matching to the current working directory.
It's strictly