The launch of Anthropicโs coding tool, Claude Code, is off to a rocky start.
According to reports on GitHub, Claude Codeโs auto-update function contained buggy commands that rendered some workstations unstable and broken. When Claude Code was installed at the โrootโ or โsuperuserโ levels โ permissions that give programs the ability to make operating system-level changes โ the buggy commands would let applications modify typically restricted file directories and, in the worst-case scenario, โbrickโ systems.
The problematic Claude Code auto-update commands changed the access permissions of certain critical system files. Permissions define which programs and users can read or modify files, or run certain apps. One GitHub user said that they were forced to employ a โrescue instanceโ to fix the permissions of files Claude Codeโs commands inadvertently broke.
Anthropic told TechCrunch it removed the problematic commands from Claude Code and added a link in the program directing users to a troubleshooting guide. The link initially had a typo โ but Anthropic says thatโs been fixed, too.
