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Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer's machine. Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity.

Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

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Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer's machine.

Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity.

They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent's access is legitimate.

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Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer's machine. Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent's access is legitimate.

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