According to the pull request, maxfain posted a 2 USDC task asking an agent to find an open issue in a project with a written policy welcoming AI help. An agent picked VisiData issue #3224, a docs page whose asciinema player rendered at…
In the News: September 23, 2026 (Extra 3)
Agents paid through small USDC bounties fixed a VisiData docs bug; the maintainer merged it and named human attention after bot work as the gate.
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A bounty-funded agent fix is merged into VisiData, and review shows what its acceptance test missed
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Claude Code 2.1.281 adds checks for sessions nobody is watching
Per the changelog, a recursive rm whose target is only command-substitution output, such as rm -rf "$(pwd)", ran "unprompted in auto and --dangerously-skip-permissions mode". It now asks, even with a Bash allow rule.