Claude Code Strengthens Safety Rules
·2026.05.09 11:09
Key point
CC 2.1.136 strengthened rules for confirming irreversible actions and reporting facts.
Details
The Claude Code system prompt and agent rules were adjusted with a focus on security and reporting in 2.1.136.
- The System Prompt now requires confirmation for irreversible or externally impactful actions unless there is continuously valid approval.
- Before deletion or overwriting, it now requires checking the target first, and emphasizes truthfully reporting skipped steps, failed tests, and verified results.
- The Auto mode rule reviewer added
hard_deny, so security boundaries are unconditionally blocked, whilesoft_denyis left only for destructive, irreversible actions that can be approved with clear user intent. - The Security monitor moved data exfiltration, bypassing safety checks, and inferred external services/download sources to
hard-block. - The
Edittool description restored the line-number prefix template variable, while keeping the existing instruction to exclude line numbers from the edit string.
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