Unhandled Process Termination in Claude Code CLI

Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — ant-kurt
Activity 6 comments · opened Aug 22, 2025 · closed Sep 5, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (ant-kurt, collaborator) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Bug Description
hi team, claude code used to kill itself after running below last command. it happened around 20-30 times in last 1 month.\
please fix this issue. as per my understanding, it should not be able to run those command which in itself exit the claude code running process.\
refer the below shared whole communication, including my propmt. after running the last command, it came out as exit on my normal command line.\
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same error is coming, clean all cache and reinstll app to fix it asap

● Update Todos
⎿ ☐ Kill Metro bundler
☐ Clean all Metro and React Native caches
☐ Clean Android build completely
☐ Remove node_modules and package-lock
☐ Fresh npm install
☐ Build new APK
☐ Reinstall app on device

● Update Todos
⎿ ☐ Kill Metro bundler
☐ Clean all Metro and React Native caches
☐ Clean Android build completely
☐ Remove node_modules and package-lock
☐ Fresh npm install
☐ Build new APK
☐ Reinstall app on device

● Kill Bash(Kill shell: bash_2)
⎿ Shell bash_2 killed

● Update Todos
⎿ ☒ Kill Metro bundler
☐ Clean all Metro and React Native caches
☐ Clean Android build completely
☐ Remove node_modules and package-lock
☐ Fresh npm install
☐ Build new APK
☐ Reinstall app on device

● Bash(npx react-native start --reset-cache & timeout 3 && taskkill /f /im node.exe)
⎿ Error: Try 'timeout --help' for more information.
error listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::8081.

● Bash(netsh interface ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp)
⎿ Protocol tcp Port Exclusion Ranges

Start Port End Port
… +4 lines (ctrl+r to expand)

● Bash(taskkill /f /im node.exe)
⎿ Error: ERROR: Invalid argument/option - 'F:/'.
Type "TASKKILL /?" for usage.

● Bash(taskkill /F /IM node.exe)
⎿ Error: ERROR: Invalid argument/option - 'F:/'.
Type "TASKKILL /?" for usage.

● Bash(powershell "Get-Process node | Stop-Process -Force")
⎿ Running…

· Malarkeying… (esc to interrupt)

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: vscode
  • Version: 1.0.88
  • Feedback ID: fdbd3117-0e92-418e-adca-1037a2da8607

Errors

[{"error":"Error: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"messages.0: all messages must have non-empty content except for the optional final assistant message\"},\"request_id\":\"req_011CSPBo2ki9bd4r6tazYAbu\"}\n    at v4.generate (file:///C:/Users/syeda/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:926:2412)\n    at XP.makeStatusError (file:///C:/Users/syeda/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:943:2101)\n    at XP.makeRequest (file:///C:/Users/syeda/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:943:5315)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-22T18:02:00.420Z"}]

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6 Comments

github-actions[bot] · 1 year ago

Found 2 possible duplicate issues:

  1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5613
  2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2362

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syedateebulislam · 1 year ago

its fresh issue, recheck.

dimitrieh · 1 year ago

This issue is quite the productivity stopper

syedateebulislam · 1 year ago

Hi Team, anyone working on it? or it's like nothing happened.

ant-kurt collaborator · 1 year ago

Can you try adding a memory via # or CLAUDE.md entry - for Claude Code to be more selective when terminating Node processes.

We're shifting towards a native executable that does not run via node entry point, which should prevent this sort of issue.

github-actions[bot] · 1 year ago

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