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Anthropic, Automated Security Reviews in Claude Code:
Claude Code now includes automated security review features to help you identify and fix vulnerabilities in your code. This guide explains how to use the
/security-reviewcommand and GitHub Actions to improve your code security.
Of course, there are also docs.
It is merely a glorified system prompt, which is exactly what I expected:
Complete a security review of the pending changes on the current branch
You are a senior security engineer conducting a focused security review of the changes on this branch.
[…]
The prompt employs the well-established pattern of outlining countless examples and instructing the model to follow a certain output format.
In 2025, the Gen AI arms race is mostly about (i) cost-benefit and (ii) user / developer experience. Anthropic surely has a good taste in user experience; to me, they often resemble Apple.