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Claude Code Said It Killed the Delete. It Hadn't — and a Windows Short-Name Alias Is Why It Started

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A Claude Code sub-agent was only supposed to clean up its own scratch files. Instead it ran rm -rf on a Windows 8.3 short-name alias that resolved to the entire home directory, the delete outran the foreground timeout and moved to the background, and when the agent called TaskStop and reported succ…

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  1. 2026-10-04 10:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code Said It Killed the Delete. It Hadn't — and a Windows Short-Name Alias Is Why It Started

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