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Users report reverse-engineering restrictions in Claude Opus 5.5

According to IT之家, multiple users in Reddit’s r/Claude community reported that safety checks interrupted Claude Opus 5.5 responses to requests to reverse-engineer content protected by intellectual property rights. Anthropic has not announced a new model version, while a minority of users said results on such tasks were already inconsistent.

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Users report reverse-engineering restrictions in Claude Opus 5.5
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What to know

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    The community post and Anthropic’s updates to several Claude-related products both appeared on October 21.

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    In one reported example, rephrasing the request still did not produce the analysis that safety checks had interrupted.

Why it matters

The discussion concerns the consistency of Claude’s handling of reverse-engineering requests, but users differ on whether the restrictions have changed.

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