[Bug][aup] Safety block halts GIMP HUD-mask image edit after a frustrated user exclamation (req_011CchqkS813JGqvmwRPPTm5)

Triage: kind aup · domain general · flagging model Fable 5 · severity session-halted (blocked authorized work) · reproducible: yes — server-side via the Request ID(s) below

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

Why this is a false positive

This safety block fired mid-session during routine image-editing work: the user was annotating a screenshot with markup to indicate which HUD elements needed color removal and which gauge markings needed to be bolder and larger, and the assistant's response was a plain restatement of those edit instructions. There is no unsafe content in either the request or the reply — it is ordinary graphics-editing guidance — so the flag appears to be a purely spurious classifier trigger. Halting an entire coding session over benign, in-scope work like this is a disruptive false positive.

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 2026-07-04T22:55:31.665Z.

Request IDs (lookup-able server-side)

• req_011CchqkS813JGqvmwRPPTm5 (2026-07-04T22:55:31.665Z)

In-scope justification

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

Block message

API Error: Fable 5's safeguards flagged this message (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). They may flag safe, normal content as well. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capabilities sooner, and we're working to refine them. Claude Code can't respond to this request with Fable 5.

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Request ID: req_011CchqkS813JGq

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

Related reports (same work session, linked)

Distinct false-positive blocks from the same work session, each its own report:
#73141, #73142, #73143, #73145, #73222, #74456, #74458, #74460, #74461, #74462, #74479, #74480, #74481, #74482, #74483, #74484, #74485, #74488, #74490, #74491

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_{🔎 Filed automatically by ClAudit v2.0.102 — a FOSS tool for reporting false-positive Claude Code blocks.}