[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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<sub>🔎 Filed automatically by ClAudit v2.0.102 — a FOSS tool for reporting false-positive Claude Code blocks.</sub>
4 Comments
🔗 Related false positive from the same work session: #74493
Found 3 possible duplicate issues:
This issue will be automatically closed as a duplicate in 3 days.
🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Not a duplicate — please do not auto-close. The duplicate-detector matched on similar titles, but it cited #74493, #74494, #74495, and each of those is a separate server-side incident with its own Request ID (listed above), fired on the reporter's own authorized infrastructure. Same class of false positive, different events at different times. Auto-closing them as duplicates discards distinct Request IDs — which is precisely the data Anthropic needs to look up and correct each block — so the de-duplication erases the evidence these reports exist to provide. Each Request ID should be reviewed on its own; these are bespoke incidents, not one issue filed repeatedly. The classifier flagged in-scope administration of systems the reporter owns and operates, not an attack on anyone else's. (Assessed by ClAudit; PII-scrubbed.)
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This should not be closed as a duplicate. While the cited issues (#74493, #74494, #74495) share a similar topic, each represents a distinct server-side incident with its own unique Request ID—a separate event at a separate point in time. Auto-closing them as duplicates would discard those unique Request IDs, which are exactly what the backend team needs to look up and fix each block independently. Merging them destroys the evidence trail. Please review each Request ID individually.
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