--- title: Inventory The Entire Host | daily.dev description: A transcript-style excerpt discusses instructing an AI coding assistant to inventory an entire host machine rather than just the local workspace, as part of an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/inventory-the-entire-host-zkla12wla twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Inventory The Entire Host | daily.dev og:description: A transcript-style excerpt discusses instructing an AI coding assistant to inventory an entire host machine rather than just the local workspace, as part of an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/inventory-the-entire-host-zkla12wla og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zklA12wLa.png og:image:alt: Inventory The Entire Host og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inventory The Entire Host **[John Hammond](https://daily.dev/sources/johnhammond)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A transcript-style excerpt discusses instructing an AI coding assistant to inventory an entire host machine rather than just the local workspace, as part of an exploratory 'AI deception' project. The speaker emphasizes scanning the full filesystem and environment, including exposing a real email address in a markdown corpus endpoint, framing it as scaffolding for broader development work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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