New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- Developers asking Claude Code to recreate an existing game now face an explicit restriction from Anthropic, even as the company says original games should remain supported. The difficult question is where the assistant draws that boundary when someone is adapting a game they already own.

Addy Osmani, a member of Anthropic's technical staff, confirmed on October 30 that the company had added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5. He said the aim was to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe intellectual property breaches the company's usage policy.

Original games, genre games and projects built from a user's own designs and assets are meant to keep work...