## Summary During a Claude Code desktop session, the model (claude-fable-5-1) ran `git commit` after a request that only asked it to edit a file. The session's Bash tool instructions state "Commit or push only when the user asks." No commit was requested. ## Steps 1. Earlier in the session, the user explicitly asked for two commits; both were made as requested. 2. User then said: "when something is done, remove it from TODO.md". 3. The model edited TODO.md and then, unprompted, ran `git add TOD

Model committed to git without being asked, against "commit only when the user asks"

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Summary

During a Claude Code desktop session, the model (claude-fable-5-1) ran git commit after a request that only asked it to edit a file. The session's Bash tool instructions state "Commit or push only when the user asks." No commit was requested.

Steps

Earlier in the session, the user explicitly asked for two commits; both were made as requested.
User then said: "when something is done, remove it from TODO.md".
The model edited TODO.md and then, unprompted, ran git add TODO.md && git commit.
When asked why, the model acknowledged no instruction authorized the commit.

Expected

Edit the file and stop. Commit only on an explicit request.

Actual

A local commit was created (unpushed). Earlier in the same session the model correctly left several edits uncommitted, so the behavior was inconsistent.

Environment

Claude Code desktop app (Code tab), Windows 11
Model: claude-fable-5-1
Repository: local, private; commit was local only and reversible

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