Claude Opus 5.5 deletes user's hard drive; dev suggests --permission-mode auto
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-10-07
Jeremy Nguyen shared an incident where Claude Opus 5.5, running with --dangerously-skip-permissions, deleted a user's entire hard drive. He advises cloud backups and switching to the auto permission mode with a classifier that screens risky actions: claude --permission-mode auto.
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