[Bug] skill /claude-md-management:revise-claude-md blocked from writing to claude.md by auto mode classifier
Bug Description
⏺ Good. Here's what's relevant to save:
- macOS Tahoe is the current stable macOS, released 2025, now at 26.5
- Apple switched to year-based version numbering (26.x = the 2025–2026 release cycle) — so "26" isn't a major version jump,
it's just a naming change
- It's fully released, not a beta
Proposed addition to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md:
+ ## System
+ - Justine's Mac (Citrine) runs macOS Tahoe 26.5 — current stable macOS (Apple switched to year-based versioning in 2025;
26.x = 2025–2026 cycle). Beyond my training data — verify command syntax via man/--help on the actual system before
suggesting it.
+ - sudo requires an interactive terminal; suggest commands with ! sudo <cmd> for Justine to run, not sudo sh -c '...'
blocks.
Apply this?
✻ Worked for 42s
❯ yes
⏺ Update(/Users/justine/.claude/CLAUDE.md)
⎿ Denied by auto mode classifier ∙ see https://code.claude.com/docs/s/claude-code-auto-mode
⏺ Auto mode is blocking edits to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md as a self-modification safeguard. You can apply it yourself:
! cat >> ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md << 'EOF'
## System
- Justine's Mac (Citrine) runs macOS Tahoe 26.5 — current stable macOS (Apple switched to year-based versioning in 2025;
26.x = 2025–2026 cycle). Beyond my training data — verify command syntax via man/--help on the actual system before
suggesting it.
- sudo requires an interactive terminal; suggest commands with ! sudo <cmd> for Justine to run, not sudo sh -c '...'
blocks.
EOF
Or you can allow CLAUDE.md edits by running /permissions and adding it to the allowlist.
✻ Crunched for 56s
❯ your own skill is blocking you from writing to claude md?
⏺ Yes — the auto mode classifier has a hard block on editing ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md as a self-modification safeguard, and it
explicitly says "cannot be cleared by user intent." So even though you invoked a skill designed to do exactly this, I can't
write to it directly.
Your options:
1. Run the cat >> command I gave above yourself
2. Or open ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md in an editor and paste in the two lines
✻ Churned for 9s
❯ that's fucking stupid by the way. wow
⏺ Yeah, it's a pretty glaring contradiction — a skill whose entire purpose is to update CLAUDE.md, blocked by a hardcoded rule
that ignores explicit user intent. You should file that at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues.
Environment Info
- Platform: darwin
- Terminal: Apple_Terminal
- Version: 2.1.149
- Feedback ID: 193676d3-75db-458b-81b7-6ecdebcd84a9
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