Incident2026-11-02

Anthropic added new limits to Claude Code to stop game cloning. Users report Opus 5.5 is now blocking reverse engineering tasks. The change is active now. Anthropic confirmed the new limits. Online complaints about blocked tasks are rising.

What changed

Claude Code allowed game cloning and reverse engineering tasks without restriction.

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