Claude keeps killing its own grep and shell processes, and prompts don't fix it
SebastianNehrd2 · x · 2026-09-26
Sebastian Nehrdich observes that Claude frequently kills its own grep/shell processes mid-task. He notes it seems like something a simple prompt rule could prevent, yet the behavior persists — a telling quirk of agent self-management that anyone building agent workflows should guard against.
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