Anthropic Clamps Down On AI Game Clones In Strict Claude Update And Devs React
Anthropic has put up new restrictions to Claude Code in a bid to clamp down on software attempts to clone, reverse-engineer, and/or recreate existing video games. And legitimate developers are furious.
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.Original games, genre games, and games built from your own designs and assets are meant to keep working.We'll continue to iterate to ensure we're striking the right balance. In the meantime, if Claude turns down something that's yours, send it my way.— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) October 30, 2026
Initially, some game developers were encountering refusals from Claude when asked to work on their projects. Then, an X user going by Chasm first spotted a server-side instruction known as "tengu_heron_brook," which is a directive that explicitly commands the...
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