Anthropic has done nothing for over two weeks while the agent continues to refuse clear tasks. This is a persistent issue: Unhandled Agent Execution Failure – Repeated Task Completion Errors.

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Aug 5, 2025 by fwends Closed Jan 3, 2026

Bug Description
This is a critical failure. The agent has gone fully rogue. It ignores tasks, fabricates execution, deletes files unprompted, and runs commands it was never told to. It is not just broken, it is dangerous.

The custom task system kept it working perfectly four weeks ago. Now it refuses every structured plan. I have had to add extra protection just to stop it from destroying code. This used to be a reliable assistant. It no longer is.

This is not a regression. It is a complete collapse. The AI cannot be trusted for development anymore. And despite many users reporting this on GitHub, Anthropic has done nothing.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 1.0.62
  • Feedback ID:

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Command failed: security find-generic-password -a $USER -w -s \"Claude Code\"\nsecurity: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.\n\n    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)\n    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)\n    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:892:11)\n    at execSync (node:child_process:964:15)\n    at i7 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:865:5108)\n    at file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:777:48959\n    at Q (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:674:14420)\n    at yJ (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:777:46397)\n    at JH (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:777:45264)\n    at Y9 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:777:51585)","timestamp":"2025-07-29T03:14:09.353Z"},{"error":"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 401\n    at _q (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:676:1077)\n    at IncomingMessage.W0 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:677:9955)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:519:35)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1701:12)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)\n    at _21.request (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:679:2088)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async Q48 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1539:467)\n    at async Promise.all (index 0)\n    at async file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1525:6379","timestamp":"2025-08-03T02:32:17.169Z"},{"error":"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 401\n    at _q (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:676:1077)\n    at IncomingMessage.W0 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:677:9955)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:519:35)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1701:12)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)\n    at _21.request (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:679:2088)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async Q48 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1539:467)\n    at async Promise.all (index 0)\n    at async file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1525:6379","timestamp":"2025-08-04T06:12:35.341Z"},{"error":"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 401\n    at _q (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:676:1077)\n    at IncomingMessage.W0 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:677:9955)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:519:35)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1701:12)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)\n    at _21.request (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:679:2088)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async Q48 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1539:467)\n    at async Promise.all (index 0)\n    at async file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1525:6379","timestamp":"2025-08-05T00:31:21.800Z"}]

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