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Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain
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Anthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse.
Key facts
- From October 2025 through November 2025, AUP-related refusals rose to around five to seven per month, with issues like #8784, " Claude 4.5 Throws API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond
- And there are many other recent examples of dubious refusals, including: #50795, #51352, #51794, #52086, #50494, #49904, #46147, and #51248
- The developer submitting #16129, "Repeated False AUP Violations in Claude Code," said, "Technical software development conversations should not trigger AUP violations
- There were about two or three complaints of this sort per month from July 2025 through September 2025
Summary
Opus 4.7 arrived on the heels of Anthropic's announcement of Mythos, a model supposedly too capable of vulnerability discovery and exploitation to give to the public. "We are releasing Opus 4.7 with safeguards that automatically detect and block requests that indicate prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses," the AI biz said. Anthropic could learn a lot by poring over the complaints in its GitHub repo for Claude Code. With greater security, come more false positives – Claude has become overcautious, refusing to respond to harmless requests.