Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
This signals a real control problem at scale. Anthropic cannot rely on its own evals to safely let AI agents interact with live data, so they gapped the pipeline. For builders using Claude agents: this is validation that tool-use stability is still fragile in production environments. For investors: it shows even the most security-conscious lab is hitting hard limits. The company is not halting agent work, but they are not confident enough in containment to let the systems roam.