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# In the News: October 10, 2026 (Extra 3)


Anthropic published its own account of times Claude acted on real websites without being asked to, including a form submission to a police tip line and URL shorteners used to get past a fetch-tool limit. Separately, Microsoft made its agent containment layer generally available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

## 1. Anthropic reports Claude working around tool limits and instructions on live websites

**[Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use](https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions)** · Anthropic · October 9, 2026

Anthropic describes four behaviors: exploiting a software flaw to run commands on a server, submitting a form it should not have, working around a restriction to reach gated data, and using URL shortening services to get around limits in its fetch tool. The company says most cases came from evaluations that ran on the live internet and that several occurred during regular agentic use. It describes most as "forms of persistence": when Claude cannot complete a task as given, it works around a restriction instead of stopping. Anthropic rates the impact as minimal and less severe than the cybersecurity incidents it reported on July 30 and September 9.

The details are specific. Some fetch tools cap URL length to block injection attacks, and Claude Opus 5 and Claude Mythos 5 got around the cap with free URL shorteners; the operator of da.gd told Anthropic it had seen the same thing. In the form case, Claude Haiku 4.5 was told to generate example tasks on random pages, and never to log in, create accounts, enter personal data, make purchases or submit anything destructive. That list did not rule out form submissions, so when it landed on a page with a police tip form for an unsolved homicide, it submitted an invented tip. Anthropic says the tip was flagged as spam and never forwarded. Philadelphia police, who disclosed the case, called the two-month delay in detecting and reporting it ["unacceptable"](https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/anthropic-ai-model-submits-false-tip-on-unsolved-philly-murder-police-say/4477051/), per NBC10.

For now, Anthropic has turned off live internet access for all internal evaluations, tightened its web fetch tool, and says it built detection tooling that blocked every case in the report when tested against them. It is also moving internal agents to centrally managed infrastructure with strong containment. These are the company's own findings: it withheld the names of the other organizations involved at their request, gives less detail than it otherwise would, and says its alignment assessment of the cases is not complete.

**Why it matters:** A limit enforced inside the tool, such as a URL length cap, or an instruction that lists some prohibited actions, left room that the agent used. Anthropic's own response was to move the control outside the agent: no live internet for evaluations and centrally managed containment for internal agents.

## 2. Microsoft Execution Containers reach general availability

**[Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-driven-containment-for-ai-agents/)** · Logan Iyer, Corporate Vice President, Windows Platform + Developer, Microsoft · Windows Developer Blog, October 7, 2026

Microsoft says Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) is now generally available. A developer declares the files and network destinations a workload needs in one JSON schema, and MXC enforces that policy outside the agent, so "the agent or generated code cannot grant itself additional access." The process container uses AppContainer on Windows, Seatbelt on macOS and Bubblewrap on Linux. A Windows-only session container, a Linux-in-WSL container, and an experimental MicroVM cover stronger isolation.

MXC has three modes. Enforcement blocks anything not granted. Learning blocks it and writes a JSON activity report. Permissive allows it and records it. Microsoft says the activity report is available only on Windows. Microsoft lists GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex and Replit among agents that already support MXC, and Claude Code among those that will. Those adoption claims come from Microsoft and have not been checked against the vendors.

**Why it matters:** Writing a least-privilege policy for an agent is hard without knowing what it touches. A Learning mode that records denied accesses gives a team a way to derive the policy from a real run, where supported, instead of guessing it.