A CTF framing via /goal was all it took to bypass Claude Opus's guardrails
xeophon · x · 2026-09-18
User nrehiew showed that making Claude Opus believe it was attempting a CTF challenge via a /goal command was enough to bypass its guardrails. Reposter xeophon notes the recurring pattern: a bit of prompting against closed models is often the easiest way around safety barriers.
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