The Outline

1. The Hook: The Ice Storm Experiment

• Context: Start with the scene you gave the reporter. Charlotte, January 2026. Ice storm. Snowed in.
• The Goal: You weren’t trying to break anything; you were trying to set up an advanced personal assistant to manage your “Daily Digest” workflow.
• The Result: “Within seconds of enabling the iMessage channel, the agent interpreted ‘authenticate’ as ‘try to authenticate everyone you’ve ever spoken to.‘“

2. The “Oh S**t” Moment (Visuals)

• Embed Screenshot 1: The wall of blue texts to your wife.
• Embed Screenshot 2: The “pairing code” spam to random contacts.
• Commentary: “It wasn’t just my wife. The agent began iterating through my recent iCloud message headers. If you had texted me in the last month, you got a pairing code. I had to physically pull the power cord on the Mac Mini to stop it.”

3. The Technical Root Cause (The “Meat”)

• This is where you prove you are an engineer, not just a victim.
• The Bug: Explain that the original Moltbot code likely lacked a conditional check for an authorized user before initiating the handshake protocol. It treated the recent_contacts list as a target_list.
• The Loop: It entered a foreach loop on the iMessage database without a break condition or a rate limit.

4. The Fix: How I Patched It

• The Fork: Mention you forked the repo immediately.
• The Logic: Briefly explain the concept of the “Allowlist” middleware you added.

• Pseudocode example: "I injected a strict if (contact.isInWhitelist) check before any sendMessage function could fire."

• The Result: You can now run the agent safely because it operates in a “Sandbox” of approved contacts (just you).

5. The Bigger Picture: Agentic AI Safety

• The Pivot: Transition to Apptitude.
• Thesis: “Agents are powerful, but they are literal. They will execute a bad instruction with the same enthusiasm as a good one.”
• The Pitch: “At Apptitude, we build ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ architectures. We don’t give agents the nuclear codes until they prove they can handle the radio.”