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pkill -f cat quits every app on a Mac, and coding agents keep running it

Three open issues on the Claude Code repository describe the same event. An agent wants to stop one stuck cat process, it runs something like pkill -f 'cat' -n -u 501 2>/dev/null , and a second later Safari, Chrome, Docker Desktop, Telegram and the Claude app itself quit. The reports in #100684 and…

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  1. 2026-11-12 08:35 · DEV Community — AI
    pkill -f cat quits every app on a Mac, and coding agents keep running it

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