Safeguard refuses device maintenance

“After that, Claude declined subsequent requests in the same session, including unrelated ones.”

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/11429/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

Quiet. No reports in the last two weeks, down from 3 a week at the mid-October peak. A workaround is known.

Safeguard refuses maintenance tasks on user-owned local devices. Debloating, OS update/flashing, and local usb operations stop partway; in one case later unrelated requests in the session were declined.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Safeguards
Versions: 2.1.296
Platforms: macOS, Windows
How bad: Some reports say it blocks them completely.

Original reports3, newest first

Oct 12, 2026Claude Code refuses benign Android OS update/flashing task as security risk#101549
Oct 11, 2026Claude Code refuses benign Android tablet cleanup and F-Droid install tasks#101343
Oct 11, 2026Bug Report: Safeguards blocking legitimate requests#101340

Safeguard refuses device maintenance

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

Is this your bug?

Original reports3, newest first

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