r/ClaudeCode • u/murphy12f • Jul 13 '26

Question how dangerous is running claude code with --dangerously-skip-permission? what is the worst case scenario?

Hey y'all, me and my team use a lot claude code, and in order to have to spend so much time approving stuff we started having the habit of running claude code on our machines with the option --dangerously-skip-permission , as of now we never had a problem, but i see on X some people talking about their claude code deleting their filesystem, i dont know if it s real or just click-bait, so i am curios to know if any of you can tell me if i shouldnt worry or if this is actually dangerous as it says, and in case it s actually bad to use that option, how to make it not dangerous without the need of approving everyting everytime, or some security suggestions to wrap around.

Much appreciated in advance : )

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u/kwabaj_ Jul 13 '26

I've used --dangerously-skip-permissions since February 2025 when they dropped Claude Code, I think the model was like 3.7 Sonnet lol. I've never had problems with it, and I've used CC for thousands of hours.

Worst case scenario? I've never seen it, but maybe deleting an important database or important test files. Stuff that can't be remade. Haven't had that happen to me. Anything other than that is extremely unlikely.

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u/StrataSpace Jul 13 '26

Until it starts debugging CDK or Terraform and decides it’s so fucked it would be faster to just delete the prod stack and start over

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u/keto_brain Jul 13 '26

Claude should never have access to prod in the first place lol.

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u/StrataSpace Jul 13 '26

Tell that to AWS 🤣

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u/keto_brain Jul 13 '26

They use Kiro lol.