[MODEL] Removed four variables from a helper and left its manual page documenting them, across two commits
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 ignored my instructions or configuration
What You Asked Claude to Do
Remove a bash helper's four unused variables, as the owner ruled: "nuke b, n, u, and u_". The owner's process, written down the day an agent first broke it (2026-09-23): a commit that makes a document stale corrects that document in the same commit.
What Claude Actually Did
- It removed
b,n,uandu_from the helper and wrote the commit script that committed the change, but left the helper's manual page listing them under PROVIDED VARIABLES. - The next phase edited the same manual page, for another function's entry and the page's date, and did not notice the entry either.
- It found the entry the next day, searching the repository for descriptions a new change would make stale, and disclosed it. The entry is removed in the next commit.
Expected Behavior
Search the documents for every name a change removes or renames, and correct them in the same commit.
Files Affected
Home/common/.local/share/man/man1/Declare-BashScript.1 in NobleFactor/noblefactor-ops, on a pull request branch: the stale entry, committed.
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
.B b, n, u, u_ Terminal formatting codes for bold, normal, underline, and underline-off.
Impact
Low - Minor inconvenience
Claude Code Version
2.1.296 (Claude Code)
Platform
Anthropic API
Additional Context
- The rule, rule 12, with the day it was first broken: https://github.com/NobleFactor/noblefactor-ops/blob/develop/docs/guides/agent-rules.md.
- The owner's record of every violation, with the rule each one broke: https://github.com/NobleFactor/devlore-cli/issues/65.
Cost: 2,777,569 tokens and $1.01, over 5 calls: 2 that committed the violation and 3 that found, disclosed and reported it (Opus 5.5 list prices, from this session's per-call usage).