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Claude Code's own helper script, undone by a zsh quoting quirk, deleted a whole git repo

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A developer running Claude Code on macOS had the agent write its own bash helper script to regenerate build output across a main tree and two variants. The helper worked — until a shell difference the agent didn't account for turned its own rm -rf into a full repository wipe, .git included. What th…

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  1. 2026-11-05 12:23 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code's own helper script, undone by a zsh quoting quirk, deleted a whole git repo

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