The Claude Compliance API now returns members' saved Instructions for Claude and Cowork global instructions, in beta for Claude Enterprise
The standing instructions employees give the AI are now in scope for enterprise compliance review. How to call it and which permission it needs.
// Key points
- It returns the text each organization member saved as Instructions for Claude in claude.ai and as Global instructions in Cowork.
- Call GET /v1/compliance/organizations/{org_uuid}/user_preferences with your existing Compliance Access Key and the read:compliance_user_data scope.
- It's in beta and limited to Claude Enterprise organizations.
Builder's takePersonal custom instructions often hold internal system names, customer details or even keys, and they used to be an audit blind spot. If you build enterprise AI products, treat this as a requirement: admins should be able to export and search users' standing instructions. If you run Claude Enterprise, pull them all once and look for things that shouldn't be there.
// Background · from #Anthropic
Full timeline →- Oct 17 Claude Code 2.1.302 turns on fork subagents by default in claude -p, the Agent SDK, the desktop app and VS Code, and warns that standalone Claude Design closes by December 14
- Oct 16 Claude Opus 5.5 fast mode leaves research preview: no access request, no beta header, and a default rate limit in every usage tier
- Oct 16 Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to its systems, onboarding six METR staff with company hardware, and lets it publish its findings