Hey Ya'll! I've been deep in Opus 5 for a few days now, and I kept noticing the same thing a lot of you have been posting about: it doesn't want to follow the ICM folder system properly. It skips steps. It buries the answer under a pile of caveats. It re-opens decisions I already made. It goes off and "helpfully" does something I never asked for. And every session I'm correcting the same handful of behaviors all over again, like the last conversation never happened. So I stopped fighting it and tried something different. I asked it directly: give me the list of your trained programming that makes you go against parts of my ICM folder system. Not the stuff its creators tell it to keep private — just its own default behaviours that clash with my rules. For each one, what it costs me, and what the override should be. It gave me sixteen. And reading them, it clicked. I wasn't fighting the model. I was fighting its training. Things like: it leads with risk because caveats feel responsible. It balances instead of committing because that's what it's rewarded for. It infers from something plausible instead of opening the actual file. The newest message in the chat quietly overwrites the standing rules I set an hour ago. None of that is disobedience. It genuinely thinks it's helping. Which is exactly why "just follow my system" never works as an instruction — the model isn't ignoring you, it's pattern-matching to something it was trained to believe is better. So we bridged it. I had it write the whole thing into a document that sits in my _foundation folder and loads at pre-flight step zero — before it touches any work. Each row names the default, names what it costs, and states the override. And every row ends the same way: my system wins. No debate, no re-negotiation. The part that makes it compound is the mechanism at the bottom. When I correct it now, we check the table: - If the behavior is already in there, it broke a known override. Fix it, move on, no discussion.

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