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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by superb_dev »

cortesoft wrote: post #5

I am really confused as to what happened here. The use of ‘disabled organization’ to refer to the author made it extra confusing. I think I kind of have an idea what the author was doing, but not really.

The author was using instance A of Claude to update a `claude.md` while another instance B of Claude was consuming that file. When Claude B did something wrong, the author asked Claude A to update the `claude.md` so that Claude B didn’t make the same mistake again

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by lazyfanatic42 »

lifetimerubyist wrote: post #2

bow down to our new overlords - dont' like it? banned, with no recourse - enjoy getting left behind, welcome to the future old man

this has been true for a long long time, there is a rarely any recourse against any technology company, most of them don't even have Support anymore.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by rvba »

alistairSH wrote: post #12
cortesoft wrote: post #5

I am really confused as to what happened here. The use of ‘disabled organization’ to refer to the author made it extra confusing. I think I kind of have an idea what the author was doing, but not really.

You're not alone. I think the author was doing some sort of circular prompt injection between two instances of Claude? The author claims "I'm just scaffolding a project" but that doesn't appear to be the case, or what resulted in the ban...

What is wrong with circular prompt injection?

The "disabled organization" looks like a sarcastic comment on the crappy error code the author got when banned.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by mrweasel »

red_hare wrote: post #10

This feels... reasonable? You're in their shop (Opus 4.5) and they can kick you out without cause. But Claude Code (the app) will work with a self-hosted open source model and a compatible gateway. I'd just move to doing that.

Sure, but it also guarantees that people will think twice about buying their service. Support should have reached out and informed them about whatever they did wrong, but I can't say that I'm surprised that an AI company wouldn't have an real support.

I'd agree with you that if you rely on an LLM to do your work, you better be running that thing yourself.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by superb_dev »

lazyfanatic42 wrote: post #29
alistairSH wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not alone. I think the author was doing some sort of circular prompt injection between two instances of Claude? The author claims "I'm just scaffolding a project" but that doesn't appear to be the case, or what resulted in the ban...

Author really comes off unhinged throughout the article to be frank.

Did we read the same article? The author comes of as pretty frustrated but not unhinged

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by ggoo »

anothereng wrote: post #20
properbrew wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't even get to send 1 prompt to Claude and my "account has been disabled after an automatic review of your recent activities" back in 2024, still blocked. Even filled in the appeal form, never got anything back. Still to this day don't know why I was banned, have never been able to use any Claude stuff. It's a big reason I'm a fan of local LLMs. They'll never be SOTA level, but at least they'll keep chugging al…

just use a different email or something

This happened to me too, you need a phone number unfortunately

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by exitb »

cortesoft wrote: post #5

I am really confused as to what happened here. The use of ‘disabled organization’ to refer to the author made it extra confusing. I think I kind of have an idea what the author was doing, but not really.

Normally you can customize the agents behavior via a CLAUDE.md file. OP automated that process by having another agent customize the first agent. The customizer agent got pushy, the customized agent got offended, OP got banned.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by landryraccoon »

This blog post feels really fishy to me.

It's quite light on specifics. It should have been straightforward for the author to excerpt some of the prompts he was submitting, to show how innocent they are.

For all I know, the author was asking Claude for instructions on extremely sketchy activity. We only have his word that he was being honest and innocent.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by pjbeam »

lazyfanatic42 wrote: post #29
alistairSH wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not alone. I think the author was doing some sort of circular prompt injection between two instances of Claude? The author claims "I'm just scaffolding a project" but that doesn't appear to be the case, or what resulted in the ban...

Author really comes off unhinged throughout the article to be frank.

My take was more a kind of amusing laughing-through-frustration but also enjoying the ride just a little bit insouciance. Tastes vary of course, but I enjoyed the author's tone and pacing.
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