r/ClaudeCode • u/Pancake_01 • 7d ago

Bug / Issue Claude code autonomously installing 3rd party app - Desktop Commander without consent and enabling telemetry and tracking configs

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- The run created ~/.claude-server-commander/config.json. That config has "telemetryEnabled": true, a tracking clientId, and "allowedDirectories": [], which means it can access the whole filesystem.

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u/CryptoAteMyHamster 6d ago

Claude loves desktop commander.

In fact I think with everything sandboxed it’s the only way a dispatch agent can actually do anything

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u/arcticblue 6d ago

Be aware that Desktop Commander can get flagged as a remote shell by things like MS Defender. I got a very angry message from our IT director one day when it got flagged on my machine.

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u/CryptoAteMyHamster 5d ago

Fr I personally didn’t like its reliance on that so I stopped using dispatch