Anthropic Redirects Claude Code Away From Game Clones — SkimNews
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- Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code’s system prompt on Opus 5.5, steering it away from recreating someone else’s specific game because using Claude to infringe intellectual property violates its usage policy.
- Claude Code will continue supporting original games, games in a genre, and games built from users’ own designs and assets.
- Addy Osmani did not confirm the exact wording in an X screenshot, which said Claude Code should not recreate a specific existing game “even if it is named or called original.”
- Anthropic said it would continue iterating to find the right balance and asked users to send Osmani cases where Claude rejects work that belongs to them.
- Anthropic has not specified in the report whether it has or will update other Claude system prompts.
Why it matters: Anthropic’s two-sentence change to Opus 5.5 routes clone requests tied to someone else’s specific game toward refusal under its IP policy, while developers retain three sanctioned paths: original, genre and user-owned games. The result is a narrower boundary for Claude Code, not a blanket ban on game creation.
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