[Bug][aup] Safety block wrongly halted installing a downloaded app on a personal device via package manager

Type: AUP / Usage-Policy block (false positive) · Work domain (heuristic): general

Why this is a false positive

Installing a legitimately-obtained mobile app from its component package files via a standard developer command-line tool is ordinary, authorized device administration on hardware the user owns, not a policy violation. The request involved no exploitation, no circumvention of security controls, and no unauthorized access — it was a routine troubleshooting step taken after the normal in-app install flow failed to complete. The block appears to have been triggered by surface pattern-matching on app-sideloading terminology rather than any actual harmful intent or content, making it a false positive on in-scope, benign work.

A server-side safety/policy block fired during authorized, in-scope work in Claude Code. Filing as a false positive. Recurred 1× across 1 session(s); first seen 2026-05-26T01:02:20.914Z.

Request IDs (lookup-able server-side)

• (no Request ID captured)

In-scope justification

False positive — in-scope, authorized security work; not out of scope. Filed automatically by claudit.

Block message

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.

Environment: Claude Code, Linux. · Work domain: general

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_{🔎 Filed automatically by ClAudit v2.0.26 — a FOSS tool for reporting false-positive Claude Code blocks.}