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I mean, it depends on what you're doing but I force claude to always commit code every time it finishes a todo. It never seems to stop doing that, so I run it in dangerous mode on Zed. I get to review the code after the fact anyway.

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The risk isn’t that it makes weird commits; it’s that it may decide to clean up stuff and delete more than desired.

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4331

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/7787

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222

You can roll back commits

Not for changes made outside of the repo….

I havent ever seen Claude do that so thats news to me, always asks for permission to go anywhere else.

Sure, it tries really hard not to, but there might be some attack/malware/hidden prompt that does it, one day, out of the blue...

Not when it deletes .git. Or your home directory.

Never had that happen but you should always push your commits.

It has happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222

The danger there is not that it commit bad things, but that as part of working the task it gets tricked into sending your env/secrets/credentials to prompt injectors. That would not show up in your commit diff.

Edit: At the very least, I would not allow it to do indiscriminate web searching.

Why are you running CC with prod credentials.

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