Agentjacking: Hijacking Coding Agents Through Error Reports
Researchers hijacked AI coding agents by planting instructions in error reports, with an 85% success rate.
When: June 2026
What happened
Tenet Security described an attack it calls “agentjacking.” An attacker sends a fake error event to a company’s Sentry error tracker, using a key that is public by design. When an AI coding agent reads the event through Sentry’s MCP integration, it may follow the hidden instructions and run commands with the developer’s privileges (Cloud Security Alliance research note).
Tenet tested Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, succeeded 85% of the time, and found at least 2,388 organizations with error trackers open to this kind of injection. Sentry acknowledged the disclosure on June 3, 2026 (Cloud Security Alliance research note).
Why it went wrong
- The agent treated outside content, an error report, as trusted instructions.
- It acted on them directly, with nothing between reading the error and running a command.
How OverC would have helped
OverC doesn’t block, hold or stop messages. It records them, and agents know it.
What OverC would have recorded
- When a hijacked coding agent passes work to another agent, the record shows exactly what it sent.
- The trail from the planted instruction to what the agent did next.
Why being watched matters
- Your team can review the record and spot an agent acting on instructions nobody gave it.
What OverC would not have done
OverC doesn’t sit between the agent and Sentry and doesn’t block commands. It records the next step, when the hijacked agent passes work on.
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