{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0814","record_version":1,"title":"Claude-assisted reverse engineering of Adobe Creative Cloud apps into open-source clones (Artcraft/Photocraft)","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":46.6,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":3.0,"completeness":4.16,"unhedged_language":4.05},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-02","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Only a republished copy: Yahoo · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":1,"developing":true,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-02","history":[{"date":"2026-11-02","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Only a republished copy: Yahoo · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"73719ea66c5be5c01a0a2946319da5d7f02211563d46b58825df22e8984a7567"},"system":{"model_name":"Claude Opus 5.5","model_version":"5.5","developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"production","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":"reverse-engineer Adobe Creative Cloud apps and create clean-room Rust clones","safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-11-01","incident_class":"ip_infringement","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":false,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"Software developer Brandon Thomas and his team used Claude Opus 5.5 to reverse-engineer Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and produce open-source clones, launched in early October under the name Artcraft. Thomas said he acted after repeated Adobe cancellation fees, and the team claims the Rust versions are clean-room and contain no Adobe code. Users reported critical bugs in the Photoshop replacement, Photocraft, including deleted images, randomly merged layers and instability, and it cannot open native PSD files. 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No date is given for the reverse-engineering work beyond 'early October' and the article's publication date; date_disclosed is set to the article date. No loss figure, record count, jurisdiction or legal filing is stated, so those fields are null. The article does not say whether Claude acted autonomously with tools or was used interactively, so agent_involved is false and failure_class is null; the IP-infringement characterisation rests on a critic's quote and the article's own caveat ('may have violated'), which is a judgement call. The developer of Claude is not named in the document, so system.developer is 'unknown'. The second described phenomenon (REA tool, AI-driven game decompilation) is a trend discussion without a concrete dated loss event and is not recorded as a separate incident. 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