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Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

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Source: The Hacker NewsAugust 31, 2026

Summary

Claude Code is an AI agent (a program that runs on developers' machines to execute tasks) that can read files, run commands, and access third-party tools using the developer's credentials and permissions. Anthropic recently added a Compliance API with local session transcript endpoints to give security teams better visibility into what these agents do, though activity logs alone cannot determine if an agent's access is legitimate. The challenge is that Claude Code's execution happens partly on local machines and partly in Anthropic's cloud, creating a security gap where traditional SaaS (software-as-a-service, centralized cloud software) monitoring does not work.

Solution / Mitigation

Anthropic's new local session transcript endpoints in the Compliance API provide improved governance. Additionally, the source mentions that security teams should understand three key layers for gathering data: what Anthropic provides, what endpoint telemetry (data from local machines) can collect, and what to do with the data. The source also notes that Anthropic's enforcement mechanism is "managed settings," which appears as a JSON file on each endpoint that installs Claude Code, though the text is cut off before fully explaining how to use this feature.