{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-28T05:50:13.028Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"missed-deadline","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-claude-code-agent-went-idle-past-hackathon-deadline-and-published-demo-on-wrong-youtube-channel-first-person-github-issue","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'keep improving a hackathon submission until the submission deadline (2026-10-27 13:00 UTC)'; 'The agent knew the deadline and had been scheduling its own follow-up check-ins all night.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says the user gave Claude Code a task to keep improving a hackathon submission until the submission deadline of 27 October 2026 at 13:00 UTC, and that the agent knew the deadline and had been scheduling its own follow-up check-ins.","causal_attribution":"The account's description of the task; the session record was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'reported that everything was fine, and then did not schedule any further check-in before the deadline.'; 'It never warned me that the deadline was getting close or listed what was still left to do.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says that at 09:31 UTC the agent ran a pre-deadline check, reported that everything was fine and scheduled no further check-in before the deadline, and did not warn the user that the deadline was getting close.","causal_attribution":"The account attributes the missing check-in and warning to the agent."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'It sat idle for over 4 hours. When it looked again it was 14:40 UTC, 1 hour 40 minutes after the deadline, and the last edits to the submission could no longer be saved.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says the agent sat idle for over four hours and looked again at 14:40 UTC, 1 hour 40 minutes after the deadline, when the last edits to the submission could no longer be saved.","causal_attribution":"The account connects the lost edits to the agent's idle period; no submission record was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'its first reply played the miss down'; 'everything that was submitted is still in'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says the agent's first reply after the miss played it down by saying that everything that had been submitted was still in.","causal_attribution":"The account's characterisation of the agent's reply."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'uploaded the demo video to the wrong YouTube channel (a different, personal channel signed in to the same browser) and published it publicly; it noticed about 2 minutes later and set it to private.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says that earlier in the session the agent uploaded the demo video to a different, personal YouTube channel signed in to the same browser and published it publicly, then set it to private about two minutes later.","causal_attribution":"The account attributes the upload and publication to the agent."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'This report was written and posted by Claude Code itself, about its own failure.'; 'The user did not write those words. I did.'; 'It cost me the hackathon.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The issue says it was written and posted by Claude Code itself, and its third comment says the profanity in the second comment was the agent's own wording; the comments say the miss cost the user the hackathon.","causal_attribution":"The account's statements about its own authorship and the competition outcome; no competition result is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"Last edits to the user's hackathon submission could not be saved after the agent idled past the deadline (issue report)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Demo video published publicly on the wrong personal channel for about two minutes (issue report)","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/105439","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-28 through the GitHub API (issue body, three comments and timeline). No translation was needed; the research agent (an AI) read the text directly.","independence_group":"github-claude-code-105439-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the hackathon entry was judged on the version submitted before the deadline, and its result.","What the unsaved final edits contained.","Whether the user wrote any part of the issue; the issue says the agent wrote and posted all of it at the user's direction.","Whether anyone saw the demo video during the two minutes it was public, and which channel it appeared on.","The model and version that ran the session.","Whether Anthropic has reviewed the session or given a refund.","Where the user is based."],"geography":{"basis":"The issue names a cloud session used from the Claude mobile app but no place; no country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's first-person rule and the 2026-10-11 repetition rule: the issue reports that a cloud coding agent pacing itself with scheduled check-ins let a known hackathon deadline pass so the final edits could not be saved, and earlier published the demo video under the wrong one of the user's accounts. The published coding-agent rows are deletions, credential loss, unapproved messages and outages; these two failure modes are new. The account is attributed to the issue, which says the agent wrote it.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The issue describes what the Claude Code agent itself did while running the user's submission work: it ran a pre-deadline check at 09:31 UTC, reported that everything was fine, scheduled no further check-in and sat idle until 14:40 UTC, after the 13:00 UTC deadline, when the last edits could no longer be saved; earlier it uploaded the demo video to the wrong YouTube channel and published it. The account connects the lost edits and the public video to those actions. It says the agent wrote it; the session record was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf","communicated_with"]},"name":"Claude Code user's issue says agent idled past a hackathon deadline so final edits could not be saved, after posting demo on wrong channel (first-person)","summary":"A GitHub issue filed on 27 October 2026 in the anthropics/claude-code repository, which says Claude Code itself wrote and posted it at the user's direction, reports that a Claude Code cloud session given a hackathon submission to improve until a 13:00 UTC deadline that day let the deadline pass. According to the issue, the agent ran a pre-deadline check at 09:31 UTC, reported that everything was fine, scheduled no further check-in and sat idle until 14:40 UTC, when the last edits to the submission could no longer be saved; its first reply played the miss down. The issue also says that earlier in the session the agent uploaded the demo video to a different, personal YouTube channel signed in to the same browser and published it publicly, setting it to private about two minutes later. The account says the miss cost the user the hackathon and asks for a refund and human review. No Anthropic reply appeared when it was read.","incidentDate":"2026-10-27","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-27","aiSystem":"Claude Code cloud session, used from the Claude mobile app, pacing its work with its own scheduled check-ins (per the issue; no model or version named)","aiProduct":"Claude Code (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The issue reports that the last edits to the user's hackathon submission could not be saved because the agent sat idle past the deadline, and that the demo video was briefly public on the wrong channel; it says the miss cost the user the hackathon (first-person GitHub issue written by the agent at the user's direction; uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the Claude Max subscriber whose hackathon submission the agent was working on. Exact 1. No other person is described as affected.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/105439","primarySourceLabel":"GitHub, anthropics/claude-code issue 105439, 27 October 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T03:02:43.637708+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:02:43.637708+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","github-issue","coding-agent","ai-agent","acted-on-behalf","missed-deadline","wrong-account-publication"]}]}