Opus 5.5 Users Complain of Overly Strict Safety Guardrails

Users report that the newly released Opus 5.5 has overly strict safety guardrails, frequently refusing benign tasks like viewing research files and forcing fallback to the 4.8 model. They are calling on the vendor to fix the high false-positive rate.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 2 related posts

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