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A prompt passed as a single argv string hits Linux's 128 KiB per-argument limit (MAX_ARG_STRLEN). Once a prompt carries a few parent programs and artifacts, every call fails with "[Errno 7] Argument list too long: 'claude'" and the iteration is lost. `claude -p` reads the prompt from stdin when no positional prompt is given, so send it there.
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claude_codebackend passes the whole prompt toclaude -pas one argv string. Linux caps a single argument at 128 KiB (MAX_ARG_STRLEN), so once the prompt carries a few parent programs and artifacts, every call fails with[Errno 7] Argument list too long: 'claude'and the iteration is lost. I ran into it evolving a ~43 KB program: the first iterations worked, then all calls failed.claude -preads the prompt from stdin when no positional prompt is given, so the prompt now goes there. The system prompt still goes through--system-prompt.Tests: the two tests that looked for the prompt in argv now check stdin, plus a new one with a 200 KB prompt.
python -m unittest tests.test_claude_code_llmpasses.