I found Claude for Government buried in the Claude Desktop binary. Here’s what Anthropic built, how it got deployed, and the line they’re still holding against the Pentagon.
https://aaddrick.com/blog/claude-for-government-the-last-lab-standing I maintain claude-desktop-debian on GitHub, so I had a full archive of builds to compare against. Claude for Government showed up on Anthropic's status tracker February 17th. I pulled the binary from the same day and confirmed the implementation in code. The whole gov mode gates on a single enterprise config key. Set customDeploymentUrl to claude.fedstart.com and the app reroutes everything: traffic, auth, telemetry, network egress. Palantir's FedStart platform handles the accreditation layer. Eight prior releases had zero trace of this code. It all landed in one build. There's also a $1 GSA OneGov deal that gives all three branches of government a year of access, and Sonnet 4.6 shipped the same day with a 1 million toke...









