[Bug] Safeguards incorrectly flag legitimate defensive security analysis as harmful

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.228
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 12, 2026

Bug Description
The safeguards flagged a legitimate defensive security task. I was investigating a third-party terminal app (cmux) that had hooked into my environment via a machine-wide NODE_OPTIONS preload, PATH-prepended shims wrapping the claude and codex CLIs, shell-integration hooks, and a Claude Code hook binary — which had also broken git and pnpm on my machine. Claude helped me diagnose the leftover environment, clean it up, and plan a VM-sandboxed audit (mitmproxy on outbound traffic, reading the hook JS, honeytokens) to check whether the app was collecting data. This is standard defensive analysis of software already on my own machine — no offensive content, no targeting of others. Having it flagged as harmful is a false positive that interrupted real security work. Please tune the safeguards so defensive audit / sandbox-analysis tasks aren't caught. or look into cmux yourselves, it is getting too much for what it offers

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: tmux
  • Version: 2.1.228
  • Feedback ID: bd103e49-a9a7-4797-912f-8b93002a983d

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