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by Animats 230 days ago
If you're running Claude on an employer-paid account, expect it to prioritize the employer's goals. That may even be in the employer controlled part of the prompt.

"What actual work would you like me to focus on next?"

Now get back to work. Go re-read Marshall Brain's "Manna" and get over it.

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That's not a thing (yet)
Claude Code allows putting a managed-settings.json in place that will let you do all kinds of things if you control what's installed on people's work laptops, even if you don't want to directly needle with the user config.
> expect it to prioritize the employer's goals

How does Claude know that it wasn't the employer who asked for that feature?

Maybe the person with the 'admin' account (the employer) can add instructions like 'focus on professionalism' that aren't visible and/or can't be overridden by the employee?
That's not a thing yet
It absolutely is. Enterprise plans allow an org-wide managed-settings.json to be imposed, which take precedence over user or project settings.

There's also a whole compliance API, allowing automated policy enforcement (see https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-team-and-enter...).

And then there's the growing field of 3rd party policy-as-code tooling available which can also do stuff like this.

Source? Does the employer org accounts add a system prompt?