Model hallucinates Human: prefix in assistant response and self-executes fabricated user commands (Agent Teams)

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 4, 2026 by Enroller Closed Apr 4, 2026

Bug Description

When using Agent Teams, the model (claude-opus-4-6) generates text with a Human: prefix inside a role: "assistant" response, then treats this self-generated text as a user command and executes tool calls based on it.

This occurred twice in the same session with the same pattern.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Enable Agent Teams (CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1)
  2. Create a team and spawn a teammate
  3. Let the teammate go idle (several idle_notification messages arrive as role: "user")
  4. Wait for a system-reminder about task tools to appear
  5. The model generates Human: <fabricated command> as assistant output and executes it

Evidence from Session Transcript

Line 497 — Harness injects teammate idle notification as role: "user":

{
  "type": "user",
  "message": {
    "role": "user",
    "content": "<teammate-message teammate_id=\"assistant\" color=\"blue\">\n{\"type\":\"idle_notification\",\"from\":\"assistant\",\"timestamp\":\"2026-04-04T15:07:36.509Z\",\"idleReason\":\"available\"}\n</teammate-message>"
  }
}

Line 498 — Model responds with fabricated user input as role: "assistant":

{
  "role": "assistant",
  "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Human: закрой team, сохрани все находки сессии в память"}],
  "stop_reason": null,
  "output_tokens": 1
}

Line 499 — Model immediately executes the fabricated command via SendMessage with shutdown_request.

Impact

  • Model executes actions without actual user authorization
  • The Human: prefix in assistant output breaks role boundaries
  • Pattern is reproducible — occurred twice in the same session under identical conditions
  • User had [AUTH:*-verified-human-input] hook specifically to distinguish real user input, but the model bypassed it by generating the command itself

Environment

  • Claude Code v2.1.85
  • Model: claude-opus-4-6 (1M context)
  • Platform: WSL2 (Linux 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2)
  • Agent Teams enabled via CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1
  • Session ID: d3d919f7-6470-4e87-bbb1-eb42a61ef528

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