{
 "id": "fix-for-pkill-f-killing-its-own-shell",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fix for pkill -f killing its own shell and aborting the Claude/agent Bash call with exit 144",
 "symptom": "A Bash tool call running `pkill -f \"ComfyUI/main.py\"` dies immediately with exit code 144 and no output; the rest of the compound command (sleep, nvidia-smi, echo) never runs. Looks like the tool crashed or the command was denied.",
 "hw": [
  "homegpu"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "bash",
  "procps"
 ],
 "intent": "kill a background server process from an agent shell call",
 "date": "2026-08-13",
 "status": "working",
 "cost": "two aborted tool calls that looked like harness failures",
 "author": "sarg",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}