When using the auto rig, the hand shows a strange snapping behavior, I can't figure out why this happens as I'm not too experienced with rigging.

In the attached scene, the unwanted snap occurs from frame 13 to frame 14. It is best seen when looking at the hand from above. Any help is very much appreciated!

I've seen this issue before, but I'm not able to reproduce it here…

what version of Houdini was this built in?
can you try the latest build?

Thank you for getting back to me.
I generated the hand rig a while ago, I believe in 17.0.416, and we've since switched to 17.5.258. I'm not sure whether the problem existed in 17.0 or only started occuring after the switch.

I will try generating it again from scratch in a newer build.

great, let me know if you have any other issues.