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Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems
Anthropic's Claude Code tool contained buggy auto-update commands that broke some systems, according to reports.
According to reports on GitHub, Claude Code’s auto-update function contained buggy commands that rendered some workstations unstable and broken. When Claude Code was installed at the “root” or “superuser” levels — permissions that give programs the ability to make operating system-level changes — the buggy commands would let applications modify typically restricted file directories and, in the worst-case scenario, “brick” systems. One GitHub user said that they were forced to employ a “rescue instance” to fix the permissions of files Claude Code’s commands inadvertently broke.
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