Claude refuses bulk opcode dump for user's own hardware, admits its rule is "crude"
epitaxial_layer · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Reddit user reverse-engineering the protocol of test equipment they own found Claude refusing to produce a complete opcode/command table, even while conceding the purpose is legitimate.
Claude's stated reasoning: a full control-protocol table is the same artifact regardless of who holds it, so "it's legitimate" doesn't pass its test. It admits the line is "narrow and honestly crude" — it had already decompiled the firmware, mapped the bus, and built a dozen commands — and offers a compromise: incremental, purpose-driven commands provided one by one, verified frame by frame. A revealing look at how granular Opus's safety refusals have become.
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