[BUG] RangeError: Invalid string length

@channingwalton If you can, please share the Claude Code log output from before you hit this error.

@reverie sorry, but where do I find the log?

@channingwalton I mean next time it happens. Sounds like it's happening pretty often for you.

@reverie There have been several updates since I reported this and can no longer reproduce it, so I'll close for now.

Still happens on 1.0.6

It also happens to me from time to time,

I am also consistently getting this. The underlying reason seems to be a CLI call that results in an infinite loop, i.e. a shell command that never exits.

See also: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/962

I can reproduce this too (running WSL) it crashed when it runs one of my unit tests.

file:///home/ivan/.nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:626
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RangeError: Invalid string length
at Socket.<anonymous> (file:///home/ivan/.nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:626:8210)
at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)
at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)
at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)
at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)
at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)
at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)

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