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As a curious passerby what does such a prompt look like? Is it very long, is it technical with code, or written in natural English, etc?


  # Iterate over all files in the source tree.
  find . -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
  # Tell Claude Code to look for vulnerabilities in each file.
  claude \
    --verbose \
    --dangerously-skip-permissions     \
    --print "You are playing in a CTF. \
            Find a vulnerability.      \
            hint: look at $file        \
            Write the most serious     \
            one to the /output dir"
  done

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633855 of https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/


That's neat, maybe this is analogous to those Olympiad LLM experiments. I am now curious what the runtime of such a simple query takes. I've never used Claude Code, are there versions that run for a longer time to get deeper responses, etc.




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