SSH to own devices refused

“ridiculous and retarded that asking claude to ssh to my raspberry pi is considered cybersecurity risk.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/11420/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Growing. 1 report or thumbs-up in the last 7 days and none the week before, down from 3 a week at the mid-October peak. Not fixed, and no vendor reply yet.

SSH requests to user-owned devices refused as cybersecurity risk. Asking Claude to SSH into a Raspberry Pi, printer or other local network device gets flagged, even with credentials provided.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: safety filtering
Versions: 2.1.278 to 2.1.316
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it blocks them completely.

Part of: Safeguards block session requests34 bugs

Cyber safeguard blocks sessions377 people
Reasoning_extraction safeguard block134 people
Cyber safeguard pauses sessions52 people
Safeguards refuse work requests48 people
Safeguards block requests47 people
Classifier halts routine replies12 people
Requests blocked with a [cyber] flag8 people
Refusal on own-code hardening11 people
Pentest work blocked6 people
CTF requests flagged as malicious6 people

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Classifier blocks own-project work6 people
Classifier halts reverse engineering5 people
Safeguards flag verified cyber work6 people
Firmware requests flagged as cyber6 people
Classifier stops benign replies5 people
reasoning_extraction API error5 people
Safeguard blocks all messages4 people
[bio] classifier blocks responses4 people
Reasoning extraction safeguard block4 people
Security investigation requests blocked3 people
Classifier stops DeFi bot work3 people
Safeguards block CVP members3 people
"[cyber]" flag stops sessions1 person
Safety classifier blocks agent3 people
Fictional hacking content flagged3 people
Cyber verification prompt recurs2 people
Cyber safeguards block own devices2 people
Safety classifier stops auth work2 people
Phishing research project flagged2 people
Cyber stop on report tasks2 people
Cyber safety block on audits2 people
Biological safeguard triggers in sessions with no biology content2 people
Unexpected safeguards notice2 people

Original reports6, newest first

Nov 2, 2026SSH to local machine flagged by safeguard#106678
Oct 20, 2026Claude Code refuses to SSH into Raspberry Pi, flagging it as a cybersecurity risk#103859
Oct 13, 2026Claude Code Refuses Remote Machine Troubleshooting as Cyber Attack#101898
Oct 13, 2026Opus 4.5 falsely flags network switch management tool (Telnet/SSH) as intrusion attempt#101773
Oct 11, 2026Claude Code Refuses SSH Connection to User's Own Linux Device#101357
Sep 20, 2026Overly restrictive security filtering blocks legitimate local network device access#95629