Anthropic restricts recreating existing video games in Claude Code and developers report blocks
Anthropic added instructions to Claude Code to prevent the coding assistant from recreating existing video games, even if they are renamed. The company allows original games, projects inspired by genres and work using users' own designs and assets. Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirmed that two sentences were added to the Opus 5.5 prompt to discourage intellectual property infringement. However, a developer at Conflict Simulations LLC reported on GitHub that the tool refused to work on board wargame modules commissioned by customers.
In 40 seconds
- Anthropic added an instruction to Claude Code not to recreate existing video games, even if renamed.
- The company clarifies it does allow original games, genre-inspired projects and work with users' own assets.
- Addy Osmani confirmed two new sentences in the Opus 5.5 prompt to discourage intellectual property infringement.
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