[MODEL] Claude code starts git find command to scan entire user folder

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Type of Behavior Issue

Claude accessed files outside the working directory

What You Asked Claude to Do

Requested a plan to generate a unit test project.

What Claude Actually Did

It worked on the plan, but that's not the issue. It's what it did while working on the plan that's the problem.

It issued a git find command on the root of my user folder to search for CLAUD.md. The logged command was:

"command":"find /c/Users/<<user>> -name \"CLAUDE.md\" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -5"

This is:

1. Not efficient, my user folder folder could be huge.
2. A little invasive
3. It triggered Microsoft onedrive to start down loading all the files linked to onedrive, because the onedrive folder is under the user folder and when "find" scanned the onedrive folder the links trigger onedrive to down load the content so that "find" could check it. Very in efficient and stupid (there could be gigabytes on onedrive)

To scan everything thing under /c/Users/<<user>> is ridiculous. Why would a CLAUD.md file in some completely un related folder be useful? Its reckless, inefficient and can have un foreseen repercussions such as downloading huge amount of files in a onedrive folder.

Expected Behavior

Claude should have searched relevant folders for desired files. As documented, if not instructed otherwise it should search:

• ~/.cloude
• Current repo / project folder
• Current repo / project folder parents up to ~/

Files Affected

Permission Mode

I don't know / Not sure

Can You Reproduce This?

Haven't tried to reproduce

Steps to Reproduce

_No response_

Claude Model

Opus

Relevant Conversation

Model version 4.7

Impact

High - Significant unwanted changes

Claude Code Version

1.3109.0

Platform

Anthropic API

Additional Context

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