[BUG] AUP refusal false positive
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 17, 2026 by bitplane Closed May 25, 2026
Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
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Okay our job in this dir is a fun one. questions first though... I want to make a "stable
diffusion" type font ligature set, where it intentionally corrupts the spelling of words by
applying ligatures to groups of letters that Stable Diffusion 1.5 would generate. Like "The"
becomes "Tno" because they're visually similar. And "Sn" gets replaced with "Sh", "nk" becomes
"af" etc.
Then I'd apply this ligature set to open source fonts to make things like "Stability New Roman" or
"Stability Sans Mono" etc.
How would we go about doing this?
⎿ API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage
Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please double press esc to edit your last message
or start a new session for Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this
refusal repeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.
What Should Happen?
It shouldn't refuse. It's a benign request about font creation.
Error Messages/Logs
How would we go about doing this?
⎿ API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage
Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please double press esc to edit your last message
or start a new session for Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this
refusal repeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.
Steps to Reproduce
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Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
I don't know
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.1.112 (Claude Code)
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Ubuntu/Debian Linux
Terminal/Shell
Other
Additional Information
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