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		ehnto 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my ... It will happily run bash commands, which expands it's reach pretty widely. It's not limited to file operations, and can run system wide commands with your user permissions.

wpm 3 days ago | [–]

Seems like the best way to limit its ability to destroy things is to run it as a separate user without sudo capabilities if the job allows.

That said running basic shell commands seems like the absolute dumbest way to spend tokens. How much time are you really saving?

classified 4 days ago | [–]

And `sudo`, if your user ID allows it!

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