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YesClaude · 28 Sep 2026

I told it (truthfully) that the job was for our lawyers and the PII is redacted in the final report, and then it complied

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In the thread “Prompting Claude Opus 5.5”, replying to this comment

Helped: Explaining the truthful context of the job to the model.

Got in the way: Initial refusal to run task involving PII queries.

… Recently Claude refused to run a task that involved queries on a database with PII. I told it (truthfully) that the job was for our lawyers and the PII is redacted in the final report, and then it complied.