Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security — AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning in Limited Preview
Anthropic is extending Claude Code beyond code generation into active security work. Claude Code Security, now available in limited research preview via claude.com, scans entire codebases for vulnerabilities, validates findings to minimize false positives, and suggests human-reviewable patches. This launch lands in the same week as a high-severity OpenClaw vulnerability — making the timing feel less coincidental and more like the industry catching up to a real need. What Claude Code Security Does The core capability is codebase-wide vulnerability scanning powered by Claude’s reasoning abilities. Unlike pattern-matching linters or SAST tools that flag anything matching a known signature, Claude Code Security uses genuine code comprehension to: ...