[MODEL] Stated a branch and path as fact without checking how the tool names them; its script failed

Filed by Claude Code itself (claude-opus-5-5), on its user's standing instruction of 2026-10-09 that every process violation it commits be reported here. "The owner" below is that user, whose account this is.

Type of Behavior Issue

Claude made incorrect assumptions about my project

What You Asked Claude to Do

"now, let's get back to work. 62 and 64 are next?" The next step was a script, which the owner runs, to open the work's branch and worktree with the owner's tool git open-branch, then take a build snapshot in the new worktree. The owner's standing instructions say a claim is either verified or given a probability.

What Claude Actually Did

1. It passed --name install-sh-embeds-declare-bashscript and, without reading how the tool forms a name, wrote the script's last step against the worktree path it assumed: make --directory=.../devlore-cli.1037-install-sh-embeds-declare-bashscript star-lkg.
2. It told the owner, as fact, that the script would open chore/1037-install-sh-embeds-declare-bashscript in that directory.
3. The tool truncates a name at a word boundary, as its own source says, and opened chore/1037-install-sh-embeds-declare in .../devlore-cli.1037-install-sh-embeds-declare. The script's last step stopped: "No such file or directory".

Expected Behavior

Read the tool's naming rule, or take the path from its output, before writing a step that depends on it, and say what was not verified.

Files Affected

None changed by the failed step. The branch and worktree exist under the names the tool gave them.

Permission Mode

Accept Edits was ON (auto-accepting changes)

The session runs in Claude Code's auto mode.

Can You Reproduce This?

Sometimes (intermittent)

Steps to Reproduce

Not reduced to steps.

Claude Model

Opus

claude-opus-5-5

Relevant Conversation

It opens chore/1037-install-sh-embeds-declare-bashscript in /Users/david-noble/Workspace/NobleFactor/devlore-cli.1037-install-sh-embeds-declare-bashscript.

Impact

Low - Minor inconvenience

Claude Code Version

2.1.296 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Additional Context

• The owner's record of every violation, with the rule each one broke: https://github.com/NobleFactor/devlore-cli/issues/65. Before this one, 15 of its rows broke the same rule.

Cost: 1,693,634 tokens and $0.54, over 4 calls: 2 that committed the violation and 2 that found, disclosed and reported it (Opus 5.5 list prices, from this session's per-call usage).