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My agent patched my home servers against a security hole and kept watch all day

A man who runs his own services at home sent his AI an article about a PHP security hole. The agent patched the services that had a fix, stopped the ones that did not, set up a watch for new fixes, and updated and restarted nearly everything as fixes landed through the day.

How it works

  1. User sends the agent an article about the PHP vulnerability
  2. The agent updates and patches the services where a patch is already out
  3. The agent stops the containers of the services with no patch yet
  4. The agent sets up a watchdog task for when patches land
  5. Through the day it reacts to new patches and updates and restarts the services
  6. One last service is still waiting

Why it’s worth knowing

He did not hand it a task list. He sent it a news article, and it worked out which of his services were at risk, patched or stopped each one, and kept watch until fixes arrived.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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