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Claude Code killed its own shell with pkill -f (exit 144): why, and a 2-minute fix

You ask Claude Code to restart a dev server. It runs: pkill -f server.js && node server.js & The tool call ends with exit 144 (sometimes 143). Nothing after pkill runs. The server is still the old one, or there is no server at all. If the agent used a wait loop instead, while pgrep -f server.js; do…

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  1. 2026-11-03 21:26 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code killed its own shell with pkill -f (exit 144): why, and a 2-minute fix

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