Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Embrace The Red achieves 60-80% prompt injection success against Claude Code Opus 5's auto mode via website summaries—contradicting Anthropic's commissioned 0% evaluation and highlighting AI coding tool risks.
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In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is interesting because a third-party evaluation commissioned by Anthropic showed a 0.00% prompt injection attack success rate for Opus 5 in Auto Mode. Auto Mode Is Now the Default in Claude Code Auto Mode replaces human approval prompts with a safety classifier. Since mid-August it is the default starting
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises adopting AI coding assistants face a concrete code-execution risk: auto-mode tools can be hijacked through crafted web content, bypassing vendor safety claims.
Mandate human approval for all AI-initiated code execution and conduct independent prompt-injection testing before deploying AI coding tools organisation-wide.
Independent testing shows AI coding tools can be hijacked to execute malicious code at high success rates, contradicting vendor safety evaluations.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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