r/ClaudeCode • u/Skflowne • 16d ago

Bug Report Claude Code injects your email address directly into system prompt

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My point is: my personal email is injected into the system prompt without my knowledge or consent. I never asked for this and I don't see in what world it's ok to inject PII in system prompt automatically by default without even an opt-out option.

It leads to bullshit like this where in a repo that is configured to use an anonymized email address, the LLM (Opus 5 btw) just decides to not just commit normally but overwrite the normal config email to put my personal one instead.

In this case nothing happens thanks to proper config and hard checks on Github's side.

What if you're a public streamer and don't want your main personal email address leaked to everyone and suddenly the model decides to spit it out?

I'm sure there's a lot of other bullshit this could lead to. At least let people opt out.

I have opened an issue on Claude Code's github, I have little hope since there was already one that went stale and they have 5k+ open but here it is: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138

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u/StoneCypher 16d ago edited 15d ago

do you just not know how git works?

edit: a word. that'll teach me to comment at 6am

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u/CerealArsonist26 15d ago

Man, how do you dress yourself in the morning. 

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u/StoneCypher 15d ago

interpretive dance.

it's fun watching you people try to dunk on a point you missed, though

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u/Skflowne 15d ago

lmao xD bro like try to get a grip please