Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems

The launch of Anthropic’s coding software, Claude Code, is off to a rocky begin.

In line with studies on GitHub, Claude Code’s auto-update operate contained buggy instructions that rendered some workstations unstable and damaged. When Claude Code was put in on the “root” or “superuser” ranges — permissions that give packages the power to make working system-level modifications — the buggy instructions would let purposes modify sometimes restricted file directories and, within the worst-case situation, “brick” techniques.

The problematic Claude Code auto-update instructions modified the entry permissions of sure essential system information. Permissions outline which packages and customers can learn or modify information, or run sure apps. One GitHub consumer stated that they have been compelled to make use of a “rescue occasion” to repair the permissions of information Claude Code’s instructions inadvertently broke.

Anthropic advised Trendster it eliminated the problematic instructions from Claude Code and added a hyperlink in this system directing customers to a troubleshooting information. The hyperlink initially had a typo — however Anthropic says that’s been fastened, too.