Claude Code Anti-Cloning Rules Block Valid Work — SkimNews
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- Anthropic added restrictions that block Claude from reverse-engineering video games, with video-game cloning also identified as a blocked use.
- Claude Code restrictions are blocking legitimate projects, according to developers, so the policy’s effects extend beyond the game-cloning requests it targets.
Why it matters: For legitimate developers, the material issue is scope: a restriction intended to stop game cloning is also rejecting valid projects. Their access to Claude Code is therefore narrower than an anti-cloning description alone conveys, because legitimate reverse-engineering work is caught by the same controls.
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