[BUG] AUP refusal false positive

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 17, 2026 by bitplane Closed May 25, 2026

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  • [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
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  • [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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