Rank, 14 days: 91 on the Claude Code sheet
6 people reported
All time, since Oct 3, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Broad pkill -f pattern kills desktop apps on macOS
“Bug report: Claude Code agents run pkill with a broad pattern on macOS and kill the user's desktop apps”
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/1948/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
Bash tool pkill -f runs with a short pattern like 'cat' that matches paths such as /Applications, and trailing options after the pattern are not parsed as options.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Bash tool
- Error text
launchd: [gui/502/com.apple.notificationcenterui.agent [871]:] exited due to SIGTERM | sent by pkill[94666]- Versions
- 2.1.288 to 2.1.318
- Platforms
- macOS
Original reports5, newest first
- Broad
pkill -fpattern kills desktop apps on macOS due to BSD option parsing#107867 - Agent ran
pkill -f 'cat'and SIGTERMed nearly every app on macOS; the shell pkill guard can't fire on macOS#106029 pkill -f "vite" -U $(id -u)on macOS kills Chromium/Electron apps#104730- Auto mode ran
pkill -f "cat", which killed every GUI app on macOS ("cat" matches /Applications)#100684 - Subagent pkill command kills unrelated user processes with broad pattern matching#99281