As developers rapidly integrate Anthropic’s Claude into their tech stacks, the conversation often shifts toward its massive context window and superior reasoning capabilities. However, the architectural choices that make Claude unique—specifically its foundation in Constitutional AI —introduce a specific set of risks that differ significantly from those found in the OpenAI or Meta ecosystems. Integrating Claude is not a "plug-and-play" security win. While Anthropic has prioritized safety, developers must understand the technical nuances of model over-alignment , indirect prompt injection , and the opacity of the Constitutional layer to build robust, production-grade applications. The Architecture of Safety: Constitutional AI vs. RLHF To understand the risks, we must first understand the mechanism.…