Users Report Opus 5.5 Classifier Blocking rm -rf Attempts Several Times a Week

gandamu_ml · x · 2026-10-08

In discussion of Opus 5.5's classifier restrictions, a user reports the only restriction they've seen: the model and its subagents being prevented from running rm -rf with an env var in the directory. They welcome the guardrail but find it "disturbing" that such attempts appear several times per week — a first-hand look at safety classifiers catching dangerous delete operations in real agentic coding workflows.

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