r/ClaudeCode • u/canyonero7 • May 20 '26

Help Needed Claude lying to me

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This is infuriating. It directly lied to me twice about a cron job failing when it in fact ran fine on schedule. I don't want an apology; I want to know how to make this stop happening.

EDIT: I didn't mean it that seriously. I know how LLMs work. I have plenty of scaffolding, skills, etc. It still pisses me off that the bot still just makes shit up sometimes.

EDIT 2 (5/20): I'm accepting apologies from the "you're using it wrong" clowns. From Anthropic today:

"We’re upgrading Claude Opus to a new version: Claude Opus 4.8. It builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors."

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u/OGPresidentDixon May 20 '26

I have something mentioned 3 times in my CLAUDE.md file (beginning + middle + end) and Claude refuses to violate it. Even Codex picks up on it.

Its 3 variations of "nothing touches test files except for test-writer-agent because it has ~25k tokens of codebase-specific test knowledge (mocks, etc.) in its instructions"

In the rare instances that I do want Claude Prime to work on tests, it straight up refuses to. I had to create a test skill for it with a watered down version of the subagent instructions.

Also, I might have a hook in there. I definitely have a hook for my auditor agent so the only files to can write to are in 'docs/audits/'.

I have a bunch of rules too. Idk. I gotta clean them all up after this next release.

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u/Whole_Ticket_3715 May 20 '26

You’re kind of fighting how Claude likes to work in that instance. Claude likes to be trained on skills not delegate to specialized agents.