Opus 5.5 refusals are safety guardrails, not bugs — check the refusal category

FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-29

Opus 5.5 has safeguards for biology, cybersecurity, and attempts to extract internal reasoning. On refusal, check the refusal category instead of assuming a technical failure, and replace reasoning-extraction prompts with supported summary outputs.

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