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Anthropic's Claude Code injects hidden copyright tag

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A user discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code injects a hidden `<ip_reminder>` tag into conversations for copyright safety. This tag appears in the user's own messages and tool output, and can be verified by examining session logs. While Anthropic has closed related GitHub issues as 'not planned,' the user's analysis of their logs revealed numerous instances of the opening tag but a lack of corresponding closing tags, suggesting the tag is often truncated rather than cleanly removed. AI

IMPACT Reveals a hidden system prompt injection in Claude Code, potentially impacting user trust and data privacy.

RANK_REASON User discovers a hidden feature in a specific product.

Read on dev.to — LLM tag →

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Anthropic's Claude Code injects hidden copyright tag

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Sho Naka ·

    I Grepped My Own Claude Code Logs and Found the Hidden Tag Anthropic Never Shows You

    <p>I was mid-conversation with Claude Code, asking it to help draft a blog post, when a literal<br /> <code>&lt;ip_reminder&gt;</code> tag showed up pasted into my own message. I hadn't typed it. It took me a few<br /> minutes of back-and-forth with the model to figure out what I…

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