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Claude Code on Windows 11 plagued by 15 undocumented errors

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A user has documented 15 specific issues encountered when running Claude Code on Windows 11, particularly when executed unattended or via the Windows Task Scheduler. These problems range from incorrect results with no error messages to encoding issues with non-ASCII characters and unexpected behavior with command-line arguments. The user provides a free script to help others reproduce these traps and offers strategies for mitigation, such as measuring exit codes, handling text encoding carefully, and running scripts through the scheduler with specific parameters. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential reliability issues for AI code generation tools in common operating system environments.

RANK_REASON User-reported issues with a specific software tool.

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Claude Code on Windows 11 plagued by 15 undocumented errors

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · 上条碧人 ·

    Claude Code on Windows breaks without errors: 15 traps I reproduced

    <p>Running Claude Code unattended on Windows 11 with Windows PowerShell 5.1, I kept hitting failures that produced <strong>no error</strong> — just a wrong result. I re-triggered every one of them on my machine (Windows PowerShell 5.1.26100, Python 3.13.7, Claude Code 2.1.304, Oc…

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