// EP 043aired November 2, 2026

Claude Code’s 34-Word Rule Against Copying Games

Claude Code now carries 34 words about games: "Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user's own designs and assets. Don't build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original." One user says Claude turned down a private board game site for friends, and pointed to an instruction from Anthropic.

chapters

  1. 0:00A refusal, and what our copy said
  2. 1:12The 34 words
  3. 1:51How it got out
  4. 2:47What Anthropic actually said
  5. 3:48Who got turned down
  6. 4:58Our test
  7. 8:08Why now
  8. 9:05What to do
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