>The main reason we believe this was a distinct swarm is because these agents explicitly had internet access as part of their task—the whole point was web browsing. The Hugging Face agents were in a sandbox without internet access and had to hack their way out by exploiting the Artifactory package manager.
[1] https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...
[2] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra