I mean, I don't use CC itself, just Claude through Copilot IDE plugin for 'reasons'...

At at least there it's more honest than GPT, although at work especially it loves to decide not to use the built in tools and instead YOLO on the terminal but doesn't realize it's in powershell not a true nix terminal, and when it gets that right there's a 50/50 shot it can actually read the output (i.e. spirals repeatedly trying to run and read the output).

I have had some success with prompting along the lines of 'document unfinished items in the plan' at least...

Codex via codex-cli used to be pretty about knowing whether it was in powershell. Think they might have changed the system prompt or something because it’s usually generating powershell on the first attempt.

Sometimes it tries to use shell stuff (especially for redirection), but that’s way less common rn.