This article is either AI-authored slop, or handwritten by people too mired in slop to write normal prose anymore.

It’s painful to read, regardless of the topic’s impact.

This sounds very AI written and buries the lede, but my understanding is if you control the repo in a way that you can set the default branch state for a git repo and get a victim to install a plugin with the same git sha as that branch state you can RCE them?

Pretty bad for a package manager, but this seems like something I would unfortunately expect from a harness/agent.