My Unattended Job Ran on Time and Did Nothing

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<p><em>This post describes the behavior of specific tool versions on my machine — macOS with bash 3.2 and the Claude Code CLI as of October 2026. Argument-parsing details change; verify against your own versions before copying any of this.</em></p> <p>For two nights in a row, my nightly automation fired exactly on schedule and exited one second later, having done nothing. The scheduler was never the problem. The prompt I fed to the agent CLI happened to start with a line of three dashes — the YAML frontmatter of my runbook file — and the CLI parsed the entire 12-kilobyte prompt as one long com

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<p><em>This post describes the behavior of specific tool versions on my machine — macOS with bash 3.2 and the Claude Code CLI as of October 2026. Argument-parsing details change; verify against your own versions before copying any of this.</em></p> <p>For two nights in a row, my nightly automation fired exactly on schedule and exited one second later, having done nothing. The scheduler was never the problem. The prompt I fed to the agent CLI happened to start with a line of three dashes — the YAML frontmatter of my runbook file — and the CLI parsed the entire 12-kilobyte prompt as one long com

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<p><em>This post describes the behavior of specific tool versions on my machine — macOS with bash 3.2 and the Claude Code CLI as of October 2026. Argument-parsing details change; verify against your own versions before copying any of this.</em></p> <p>For two nights in a row, my nightly automation fired exactly on schedule and exited one second later, having done nothing. The scheduler was never the problem. The prompt I fed to the agent CLI happened to start with a line of three dashes — the YAML frontmatter of my runbook file — and the CLI parsed the entire 12-kilobyte prompt as one long com

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My Unattended Job Ran on Time and Did Nothing

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