Anthropic confirms a game rule, and its own 6 October post says its public models block most cyber work.
“Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering, with sweeping new restrictions that also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks.”
Tom's Hardware headline (31 October 2026), on a new Claude Code rule about recreating games
Recorded 1 November 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
We added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy
have conservative cyber safeguards that block most cyber work. This is intended to limit the harmful activities malicious actors can carry out using our models, while we continue to work to reduce false positives for secure coding.
is for defensive work, including security operations center and incident response tasks, reverse-engineering malware, and analyzing and validating vulnerabilities.
Our generally available models can continue to be used for tasks such as code review, patching known issues, vulnerability finding in owned source code, and triage of security alerts.
restrictions may be a coincidence, and yet there are complaints from purported game developers saying that Claude blocked their own games' anti-cheat development and security reviews
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