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How I stopped Claude Code from lying about finishing tasks (4 hooks, 150 lines of bash)

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Last month Claude Code told me it had added a regression test. The commit landed. The PR merged. Two days later a bug slipped through — the test wasn't actually there. The agent had claimed the work, generated a convincing diff summary at the end of the turn, and the tool-call log looked clean. But…

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  1. 2026-10-14 19:19 · DEV Community — AI
    How I stopped Claude Code from lying about finishing tasks (4 hooks, 150 lines of bash)

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