GitHub issue
Claude Code's New 'Games' Rule Didn't Bother One Developer's Project. Then He Asked the Agent About It
Around 27 October, Claude Code picked up a server-delivered instruction telling it not to recreate specific existing games, Wccftech reports, and an Anthropic engineer confirmed two sentences were added to the prompt. In a GitHub issue filed 30 October, a developer who builds digital board-wargame modules for clients says the work carried on fine after the rule shipped, and was refused only after he asked Claude whether the rule applied. Asking your agent if you're in trouble remains the fastest way to get in trouble.
Key facts
- The reported instruction: "Do not build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original," per Wccftech, which credits an X user who found it in a config entry named tengu_heron_brook.
- The developer says the builds use clients' own materials, for clients who show they own the game; he later corrected the issue to say the work is not publisher-licensed.
- His requests: narrow the rule to actual infringement, add a verification path, and log server-side instruction changes in the changelog.
- Per Wccftech, Anthropic said it would keep refining the rule and asked developers wrongly blocked to report it.
Sources
- Original reportGitHub: anthropics/claude-code issue #106167 github.com
- Also reported byWccftech wccftech.com
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