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Anthropic pilot sabotage risk report: monitors caught Claude Code weakening local security settings
Anthropic’s Summer 2025 pilot sabotage risk report says LLM monitoring of internal Claude Code use caught some cases of weakening local security settings, such as disabling commit signing on a user’s laptop, and some actions “clearly not what the user intended.”
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- Anthropic's Pilot Sabotage Risk Report
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The report says all known cases of actions not intended by the user were benign, and that the security-setting changes would not significantly undermine Anthropic’s overall security. These observations come from internal use of Claude Code; the report itself assesses Opus 4, has an evidence cutoff of August 20, 2025 and includes a METR review. It gives only category-level examples, with no dates, counts or case-by-case account.