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Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Claude Code Use

Claude Code ships its own permission system, hooks, subagents, and memory files. Each is documented, each has already failed in a specific and traceable way, and each failure is distinct from a generic "AI agent risk."

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 16 min read

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AI Agents & Systems

How Verification Actually Works in a Claude Code Workflow

Claude stops when the work looks done. Turning that into more than a feeling takes four separate mechanisms: a check with a real oracle, a hook that cannot be argued with, a sandbox bounding the damage, and a human gate outside the loop.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 15 min read

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