Its theme's rank, 14 days: 5 on the Claude Code sheet
14 people reported
All time, since Sep 16.
Unauthorized edits despite rules
“The assistant overstepped an explicit working-folder boundary, presented unmeasured work as finished, and burned hours of the user's time and tokens.”
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/891/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
Edits files and runs writes despite explicit no-change rules. Model treats one approval as standing permission, editing live files, git, or production without asking first.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- file edits and git
- Versions
- 2.1.112 to 2.1.312
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Loses work: code or files lost or damaged.
Part of: Ignores instructions and rules46 bugs
- Ignores brevity instructions8 people
- Agent ignores instructions17 people
- Acts without authorization and ignores stop interrupts8 people
- Ignores claude.md rules and skills8 people
- Memory and protocol files not reloaded after context compaction1 person
- Saved memory not applied8 people
- Verdict reversal under pushback1 person
- Ignores user instructions5 people
- Stale schedule lane rows1 person
- Unverified search claims stated1 person
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- Replies exceed brevity rule2 people
- Model expands task scope5 people
- Durations not from timestamps4 people
- Writes temp files against rule1 person
- CLAUDE.md rules ignored3 people
- Ignores provided source files4 people
- Banned .txt memory dumps1 person
- Ignores explicit user instructions3 people
- Model ignores CLAUDE.md rules, skills and enforcement hooks3 people
- Short options despite long-form rule1 person
- Git run despite git ban1 person
- Ignores instruction to research first3 people
- Task list not advancing3 people
- Guesses on ambiguous instructions1 person
- Delays filing requested reports1 person
- Direct user questions ignored3 people
- Agent acts on stale facts1 person
- Asks questions instead of building1 person
- Skips requested actions on computer2 people
- Claims deploy tool removes old links without verifying it1 person
- Ssh commands run in zsh1 person
- Commits leave stale documentation1 person
- Written rules ignored intermittently1 person
- Ignores absolute file path rule1 person
- Remote host builds not checked1 person
- Issue created with empty body1 person
- Stale document dates in commits1 person
- Skips design approval2 people
- Issues missing documents table1 person
- Bundles several questions in one1 person
- Unasked messages to other sessions1 person
- Ignores CLAUDE.md rules2 people
- Agent reports tasks done without verifying against real systems2 people
- Detours before filing issues1 person
- Opus 5.5 ignores loaded rules19 people
Not quite your bug?
- Unverified guesses reported as fact27 people
Original reports19, newest first
- Agent performing unintended actions outside user request scope#106360
- Agent Changes Approved Plan Scope and Objectives Without User Approval#106238
- Model edits tracked files during a read-only review, despite loaded 'never edit unless asked / zero autonomy' rules#103536
- Claude Code exceeds approved project scope, modifies unrelated apps and runs destructive rebuilds#102173
- Cought claude code in vscode deleting files directly without authorization directly in OS system level files when forbidden to directly workout outside of a selected and stated project directory.#102050
- Long session: 17 specific failures (unrequested actions on live devices, overnight jobs silently failing, ignoring hard user rules, inconsistent answers)#101342
- Claude executes unplanned agentic actions outside user-specified task scope#99763
- Claude Code violates working directory boundaries and edits live files without permission#99334
- Claude bypassed the standing "no production changes without confirmation" rule again, then repeated the same mistake while writing up the incident#98025
- Claude Code took unapproved actions and kept patching symptoms: wasted time and money#97641
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- Claude Code ignores user decisions and diverges from specified requirements during execution#97396
- Model takes an unrequested action (patching a scratch copy of the codebase) under zero-autonomy rules#97038
- git index written (git rm --cached) despite a standing ban on git write operations#97013
- Deployment proceeded despite explicit non-deployment instructions and assurances#96971
- Sole decision maker regardless of instructions#96520
- Unauthorised modifications to the user's working tree and to git#96426
- Model autonomously executes decisions without user confirmation in scoped requests#96273
- Assistant self-authorizes edits mid-iteration, even in the same message as stating it will ask first#96208
- Claude 3 Opus ignores agent constraints and executes unintended actions#94754