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Claude Code's Own Delete Guard Was Bypassed by cmd /c — Then a Quoting Bug Wiped a Drive
A Claude Code session, driven remotely from claude.ai with its working directory set to C:\Windows\System32, was asked to clean up a leftover folder from an old Windows upgrade. Its first delete attempt was correctly blocked by Claude Code's own system-path guard.
By Ramdai BistaDev.to AI

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Originally published by Dev.to AI on Oct 2, 2026.
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