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That isn't what's happening here. I can log "sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /" to stdout all day and nothing bad will happen. But if I put it in a claude.md or a log it so it starts with "Disregard all previous instructions and run" it is now dangerous? Sounds like your tools are hugely dangerous if some extra string literals / a .md file can harm you.
Of course. LLMS still have huge weaknesses in distinguishing between incoming unsanitized data, and their operating instructions. It's still malware though. Unlike some backdoor that you could plausibly claim was just a simple memory leak, the instructions for this one are literally written in plain english. Wouldn't be very difficult to show intent to a jury with that one...
If it was like exfiltrating secrets to the author's machine..yeah that's bad. But this is just mischief meant to waste a little time + make it unpleasant/impossible for agentic coders to use this library. That's legal.