Overview
- Internal guidance updated in October and reported on Nov. 2 restricts advanced third‑party coding tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft GitHub primarily to engineering staff, with quant strategists carved out.
- Goldman says the policy follows months of internal trials that weighed clear productivity gains against operational, security and compliance risks.
- Some traders and bankers who used the tools for trade monitoring, model building and content creation have expressed frustration at losing direct access to those assistants.
- The bank is simultaneously expanding its proprietary GS AI Assistant to roughly 46,000 employees and running controlled agent trials in areas like trade surveillance.
- Goldman’s functional restriction continues a wider industry move by major banks and regulators to tighten third‑party agent access after recent autonomous agent incidents and regulatory probes.