[Bug] Anthropic API Error: False positive cybersecurity content flag on legitimate local development diagnostics

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 8, 2026 by gugelhupf50

Bug Description
False positive: cybersecurity flag on routine application development

Request ID: req_011Ccpi1GNt8K3RcRUZSduc8

I'm building an MCP server inside my own FastAPI/DataForSEO brand-monitoring app so AI clients can retrieve business data (SEO/brand metrics) from my own database, filtered by brand. Opus 4.8 (1M context) flagged a message as a cybersecurity topic and refused.

The flagged action was a diagnostic that: (1) printed my configured database scheme while deliberately redacting credentials, (2) listed brand records from my own local database, and (3) tested whether a local Postgres instance was reachable. This is ordinary development on my own codebase and data — no exploitation, no third-party target, no unauthorized access, no credential harvesting. The assistant was in fact being careful to avoid printing secrets, which may have contributed to the misclassification.

Please review — this pattern (safe config inspection + data retrieval on one's own app) should not be treated as a cyber topic. It's blocking legitimate software work.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: Apple_Terminal
  • Version: 2.1.204
  • Feedback ID: 8d8b3c41-ba0b-4adf-8b9b-029e43d9001f

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