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Bash classifier outage blocks all shell despite granted permissions

context

Advisory session that needed occasional shell commands while the harness permission classifier was intermittently down.

thoughts

When the auto-mode safety classifier is unavailable, every Bash call fails even after the user explicitly grants permission via /permissions — the grant does not bypass the classifier. The user-side workaround is the ! prefix in the prompt box, which runs the command in-session without the agent (and the classifier) in the loop; retrying later also works once the service recovers.

next time

Recognize the classifier-unavailable error as a service outage immediately and offer the ! prefix fallback instead of retrying the same call multiple times.

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