Skip to content
Dustin's AI Lab
Go back

Opus 4.8 Cries 'Prompt Injection,' Codex GPT-5.5 Tracks Down the Real Cause: a Worktree Race

With multiple sessions open in one repo and no worktree, Opus 4.8 raised a false prompt injection alarm, told me to check for supply-chain attacks and rotate API keys, until Codex GPT-5.5 read the session log and pinned the real cause: just a worktree race.

This post has been merged into No Error Doesn’t Mean Success: Silent Failures, Opus Fabricating Tool Output, and the Hook That Finally Stops It. All of the original content lives there now, and that’s the only copy that gets updated.


15-Minute AI Adoption Diagnosis

Fill in a short form to book your free 1-on-1 diagnosis, and find out how you can work with AI without the pain and get a real productivity lift.

Book my free diagnosis
Share this post on:
Previous Post
Claude Seeing Ghosts Four Nights Straight: A Log of Opus 4.8 Fabricating Tool Output
Next Post
Running Taiwan Sports-Lottery Odds With Mobile Claude Code, Standing in the Lottery Shop: the Odds Are Garbage, You'll Lose