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We often assume that adding files to .gitignore or .geminiignore is enough to keep them private. When it comes to local AI agents, that assumption is dangerously wrong. These ignore files are for version control and file search indexing, not a security shield. An AI assistant with access to your local environment can easily read any file, regardless of your ignore settings. A Simple, Scary Test Let’s prove it. Imagine you have a project with a simple .env file: ...

If you use Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI, you know the struggle: you run a complex prompt or a long refactoring task, switch to another task, and forget to check back for five minutes. I recently came across Andrea Grandi’s post on how to solve this on macOS using terminal-notifier. Linux has a native equivalent that works perfectly. So… here’s how to set up desktop notifications for Claude Code on Linux. The Linux Alternative: notify-send On macOS, Andrea used terminal-notifier. On Linux, the standard tool for sending desktop notifications is notify-send, which is part of the libnotify library. Installed in my lubuntu 24.04 by default. But, First, ensure you have it installed. ...