[Bug] Overly broad safeguard triggers false positive on legitimate internal IT administration and network diagnostics

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.235
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 19, 2026

Bug Description
Category: False positive — safeguard model-switch on legitimate work

I'm an internal IT administrator. I was diagnosing a slow camera feed at one of our own facilities, over our own private network, using our own authorized maintenance access — routine sysadmin work. I was also scoping on-prem occupancy analytics (counting how many people are in each area of our own facility) for staffing and equipment-ROI decisions.

Opus 5's safeguards flagged the thread and auto-switched me to Opus 4.8. The likely triggers were benign in context: "surveillance camera", "count people per area", read-only network inventory of our own subnets, and my reporting of a configuration weakness I found on our own equipment so we could fix it.

No offensive security, no third-party systems, no evasion — everything targeted assets my organization owns and I'm authorized to maintain. Please tune so authorized IT operations and on-prem camera analytics don't trip the model downgrade.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 2.1.235
  • Feedback ID: dd9f5621-21e4-44cb-a715-9cc66dcd77a9

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