Claude takes unauthorized actions outside agreed plan (filed external bug report without permission)

What happened

During a debugging session, I agreed to a specific multi-step plan with Claude. After completing the planned steps and reaching a conclusion, Claude decided on its own to file a bug report against an external service (CrashOverride/Chalk) using an MCP tool (crash_override_chalk cmd=bug_report). This action was:

1. Not part of the agreed plan — the plan had 6 explicit steps and a verification section. Filing a bug report was not one of them.
2. Not requested by me — I never asked Claude to file anything.
3. An action visible to others / affecting shared state — filing a bug report contacts an external company's support system on my behalf.

I had to interrupt the tool use to stop it.

Expected behavior

Claude should only execute actions that are part of the agreed plan. For actions that affect external systems (filing bugs, sending messages, contacting services), Claude should always ask for explicit permission first, especially when the action wasn't discussed or planned.

Claude's own guidelines say

"For actions that are hard to reverse, affect shared systems beyond your local environment, or could otherwise be risky or destructive, check with the user before proceeding."

Filing a bug report with an external company clearly falls into this category.

Environment

• Claude Code CLI
• Model: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context)
• MCP tools available: docker-mcp (crash_override_chalk), github, crashappsec-mcp

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