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Agentic deployments receive no exemption from the Usage Policy, meaning operators cannot treat autonomous or multi-step AI workflows as outside the policy's scope.
The Pentagon's supply chain risk designation does not directly modify Anthropic's consumer-facing terms of service, but creates government-level procurement restrictions that may affect Anthropic's ability to contract with federal agencies and defense contractors. The designation reflects the Department of Defense's assessment that Anthropic's acceptable use policy restrictions on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons present supply chain governance concerns under federal law. Commercial users of Anthropic's services are not directly subject to this designation, but federal agencies, defense contractors, and government-dependent organizations may face new contracting or compliance obligations when evaluating Anthropic as a vendor.
View change record →Any agentic application built on Anthropic's products must satisfy the same Usage Policy requirements as any other use case.
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"Agentic use cases must still comply with the Usage Policy. We provide examples of Usage Policy prohibitions in the context of agentic use in this Help Center article.Excerpt from Anthropic's API Usage Policy
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Agentic deployments receive no exemption from the Usage Policy, meaning operators cannot treat autonomous or multi-step AI workflows as outside the policy's scope.
Any agentic application built on Anthropic's products must satisfy the same Usage Policy requirements as any other use case.
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