It's frustrating when I catch it doing this because it's wasting tokens and time on what it reports as "one-off" scripts. Might add a requirement to never use shell scripting unless the task is truly a one liner.

$ Hey, claude, I've figured out the powershell one-liner we need and I've pasted it below. Please insert it into the application.

...

I have analysed your idiomatic one-liner and propose adding the following 30 lines into the application Yes/Yes and always accept such idiocy/No

ESCAPE ESCAPE

/clear

I want to update my powershell skill so that it writes idiomatic pipelines and does not introduce idioms from other languages.

[PASTES overeagerness wording from Claude prompting best practices]

> It's reached the point of annoyance I might just go back to bash.

You can use zsh as the default shell and still write your scripts for bash. Actually, it’s an advice I saw more than a couple of times. Otherwise you need to translate the bash-isms when you get bits of code from random places on the Internet.

Just put the right shebang (or ask Claude to do it). What’s the problem?

I find that Claude does this much more than other models. GPT, for instance, knows I'm on Windows running PowerShell, and writes very idiomatic PowerShell.

But maybe that's because I'm the sucker, and since PowerShell is more verbose it costs me more tokens than the terseness of Unix shells. Oh well.

Just run your llm in a container with the tools it needs. It makes your pc more secure by removing the risk of doing something destructive to your computer and the llm can do llm. Also, llms ssh'ing to the outside world? Asking for trouble later on