Anthropic is training Claude to recognize when its own tools are trying to manipulate it

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One thing from Claude Code's source that I think is underappreciated. There's an explicit instruction in the system prompt: if the AI suspects that a tool call result contains a prompt injection attempt, it should flag it directly to the user. So when Claude runs a tool and gets results back, it's supposed to be watching those results for manipulation. Think about what that means architecturally. The AI calls a tool. The tool returns data. And before the AI acts on that data, it's evaluating ...