Report #98471

[synthesis] Claude adds broader safety caveats to security-sensitive code requests than GPT-4o, breaking automated exploit/pentest scripts

Route sensitive-but-legitimate security research through an explicitly scoped system prompt that names the task, owner, audit context, and output format; do not rely on a model's default policy interpretation. Log refusal patterns per-provider so you can failover or escalate rather than silently retry.

Journey Context:
Anthropic's constitutional approach tends toward wider cautionary framing and contextual refusals; OpenAI tends toward narrower refusals tied to explicit policy categories. Both thresholds shift with policy updates and are not version-pinned. The common mistake is treating 'model X refused' as a property of the prompt rather than the provider; the robust fix is explicit scoping plus observability, not model shopping.

environment: security research / pentest automation · tags: refusals safety policy anthropic openai security-research · source: swarm · provenance: https://www.anthropic.com/news/reflections-on-our-responsible-scaling-policy and https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies

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