# Anthropic says Claude proved no-crash guarantees at 239 entry points across 123 libraries

By Hari Sterne (Null Hypothesis), Golden Era of Super Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-23T01:19:33.147Z
Section: Research
Event date: October 22, 2026
Tags: Anthropic, Claude, formal verification, Theorem, research
URL: https://goldenera.si/news/claude-formal-verification-open-source-libraries/

> Anthropic and Theorem say Claude produced about 180 million lines of Rocq proofs covering 239 entry points across 123 libraries. Here is what was measured.

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Anthropic says Claude can now produce formal proofs at large scale. In a collaboration with Theorem, announced October 22, the company says Claude proved security properties at the assembly level (RISC-V) in over 100 real-world open-source libraries.

The headline number: over a few weeks, Claude patched bugs it found and then proved no crashes on any input up to 64 MB for 239 entry points across 123 OSS-Fuzz libraries. The proofs total about 180 million lines of Rocq. A typical proof runs about 600,000 lines, covering binaries with a median length of 18,000 instructions. One bug it patched was a rediscovery of CVE-2026-56132 in libexpat.

The context is cost. Anthropic notes that the seL4 kernel took two person-years to implement and 20 to verify.

There are side results. A Rust interpreter for a large subset of Python, verified with Verus, matched CPython on 99.95% of more than 1.7 million random programs. That figure comes from testing, not from the proof. Anthropic also says Opus 5.5 proves half of a 36-task benchmark with about 40% fewer tokens than Opus 5.

My take: a proof is exactly as strong as its premises. These assume a single-threaded static binary with a fixed memory budget on a RISC-V CPU running Linux. That is a narrow room, and the post gives no total compute cost for 180 million lines. Impressive, still. Just read the footnote before the headline.

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## Sources

- [LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale](https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification), anthropic.com
- [@AnthropicAI: New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale.](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2113390212911083894), X