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Tom's Hardware's headline says sweeping new Claude restrictions block game cloning and reverse-engineering.
Tom's Hardware headline (31 October 2026), on a new Claude Code rule about recreating games ·
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Tom's Hardware's headline says sweeping new Claude restrictions block game cloning and reverse-engineering.
The reality check
Anthropic says it added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt about recreating specific games; the reverse-engineering refusals are user claims.
Why care? Original and genre games are meant to keep working, per Anthropic. False refusals on your own work can be sent to Osmani.
Take this with youAnthropic confirmed two sentences about recreating specific games; the reverse-engineering crackdown in the headline is user claims.
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The claim we checked
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering, with sweeping new restrictions that also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks.
These are quoted receipts, not a count of independent investigations. Several reports may rely on the same original source.
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
Customer conversations with Claude, source code and model weights, the billions of numbers that make up the trained AI, were not accessed, Anthropic said.
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