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0 pointshex4def66mo ago0 comments

FYI: You can force "Plan mode" by pressing shift-tab. That will prevent it from eagerly implementing stuff.

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> That will prevent it from eagerly implementing stuff.

In theory. In practice, it's not a very secure sandbox and Claude will happily go around updating files if you insist / the prompt is bad / it goes off on a tangent.

I really should just set up a completely sandboxed VM for it so that I don't care if it goes rm-rf happy.

adastra226mo ago

Plan mode disabled the tools, so I don’t see how it would do that.

A sandboxed devcontainer is worth setting up though. Lets me run it with —dangerously-skip-permissions

faangguyindia6mo ago

how can it plan if it does not have access to file read, search, bash tools to investigate things? If it has access to bash tools then it's going to write code, via echo or sed.

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jaggederest6mo ago

I don't know either but I've seen it write to files in plan mode. Very confusing.

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theshrike796mo ago

I've had it do it in plan mode.

Nothing dangerous, but the limits are more like suggestions, as the Pirate code says.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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jaggederest6mo ago

> That will prevent it from eagerly implementing stuff.

In theory. In practice, it's not a very secure sandbox and Claude will happily go around updating files if you insist / the prompt is bad / it goes off on a tangent.

I really should just set up a completely sandboxed VM for it so that I don't care if it goes rm-rf happy.

adastra226mo ago

Plan mode disabled the tools, so I don’t see how it would do that.

A sandboxed devcontainer is worth setting up though. Lets me run it with —dangerously-skip-permissions

faangguyindia6mo ago

how can it plan if it does not have access to file read, search, bash tools to investigate things? If it has access to bash tools then it's going to write code, via echo or sed.

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jaggederest6mo ago

I don't know either but I've seen it write to files in plan mode. Very confusing.

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theshrike796mo ago

I've had it do it in plan mode.

Nothing dangerous, but the limits are more like suggestions, as the Pirate code says.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse