Claude safety filters keep escalating a harmless shell command

P_nde · reddit · 2026-07-25

A screenshot shows Claude’s safety system repeatedly flagging a harmless shell command, escalating from Fable 5 to Opus 5, then Sonnet, and finally Haiku as each layer complains about the previous one.

The joke is that the guardrails are so sensitive that the model keeps being downgraded until the smallest version is left to answer, turning a safety feature into a comic chain reaction.

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