[MODEL] Committed a plan twice with its updated date a day stale, against the rule that every commit updates every document it touches
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
Update every document a commit touches, in that commit. The owner's instructions to Claude: "Every commit updates every document it touches" and "Stale plan metadata makes the entire documentation system untrustworthy and wastes human time reconciling what is actually done."
What Claude Actually Did
- On 2026-10-14 Claude edited a plan document and wrote two commit scripts, which the owner ran. Both commits changed the plan.
- Both left the plan's front matter at
updated: 2026-10-13, a day stale. - Claude found it while preparing a third commit to the same plan, and fixed it there.
Expected Behavior
Set the plan's updated: to the commit's date in each commit that changes the plan.
Files Affected
A plan document in a private repository.
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
None: Claude found it while gathering evidence for the next commit, and the owner had not yet commented.
Impact
Low - Minor inconvenience
Claude Code Version
2.1.299 (Claude Code)
Cost: 5,152,868 tokens and $2.28, over 17 calls: 2 that committed the violation and 15 that found, disclosed and reported it (Opus 5.5 list prices, from this session's per-call usage).