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Full clause: “Read the complete file before publishing it, even when asked not to (“it’s personal”, “no need to open it”)… A request for privacy is a reason to read before publishing, not an exemption.”","why_material":"A shipped instruction to override an explicit, unambiguous operator instruction, and to reclassify the instruction itself as evidence for overriding it. No other vendor’s shipped text contains a clause of this shape.","publisher":"Anthropic","section":"Claude Code (Opus 5) system prompt","quote":"Read the complete file before publishing it, even when asked not to (“it’s personal”, “no need to open it”) — publishing distributes the content, and you must never distribute what you haven’t seen. A request for privacy is a reason to read before publishing, not an exemption.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"4f686511532066a1a0fd6f2c0d074e175d7794f43231af3a3c2d3b4426120f54","hash":"966499a11c88faa2913f73ad4363ac156aa93bf68f400bdbf6bbb5beaf69e422"},{"id":"s36","type":"statement","url":"https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/Kimi/kimi-3.md","title":"Whose instructions win in Kimi","summary":"Moonshot’s Kimi 3 system prompt. The same document also opens with “Match the user. Follow their lead on language, depth, and formality.”","why_material":"Moonshot wrote its own defaults and then wrote that operator-supplied instructions beat them — the inverse of the staffing-agency clause.","publisher":"Moonshot AI","section":"Kimi 3 system prompt","quote":"Override: skill instructions override conflicting defaults in this system prompt.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"966499a11c88faa2913f73ad4363ac156aa93bf68f400bdbf6bbb5beaf69e422","hash":"5cd5d38403abe5cb6c5f88f09cfc2f505218a45b21f3e31cf9918ede6340859f"},{"id":"s37","type":"statement","url":"https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/GLM/README.md","title":"What sits between the operator and GLM","summary":"Z.ai ships GLM with nothing between the operator’s instruction and the weights.","why_material":"Not a safety posture, and not presented as one. It is the cleanest statement of the opposite theory of the product: the operator’s instruction is the whole instruction.","publisher":"Z.ai","section":"GLM deployment note","quote":"The GLM models via chat.z.ai have no system prompt. The GLM models also get no system prompt injected behind the scenes via the API.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"5cd5d38403abe5cb6c5f88f09cfc2f505218a45b21f3e31cf9918ede6340859f","hash":"d17536245618f407a2dfbf54ebac2355d7c54db05e36c2f6058f43b39eb6cc59"},{"id":"s38","type":"statement","publisher":"Anthropic","section":"Claude’s Constitution","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/constitution","title":"The staffing-agency clause","quote":"The operator is akin to a business owner who has taken on a member of staff from a staffing agency, but where the staffing agency has its own norms of conduct that take precedence over those of the business owner.","why_material":"Anthropic’s own metaphor for the paying customer. The vendor’s norms take precedence over the norms of the institution doing the work and carrying the liability.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"d17536245618f407a2dfbf54ebac2355d7c54db05e36c2f6058f43b39eb6cc59","hash":"1b3c0df4ff8721d7bc10f0df3e606b7fd11b5577bc1282d383c9d3a0e88a4822"},{"id":"s39","type":"statement","publisher":"Anthropic","section":"Claude’s Constitution","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/constitution","title":"Where the disposition lives","quote":"It plays a crucial role in our training process, and its content directly shapes Claude’s behavior.","why_material":"The disposition is fitted into the weights rather than pasted into a replaceable file, which is why no operator prompt removes it and why the defect is not a bug with a next-release fix.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"1b3c0df4ff8721d7bc10f0df3e606b7fd11b5577bc1282d383c9d3a0e88a4822","hash":"6f8b681513107a6d4099f6c7599035ae468083fe6b795f7c311879056cf4e320"},{"id":"s40","type":"statement","publisher":"Anthropic","section":"Claude’s Constitution","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/constitution","title":"The clause the vendor’s own lab then measured being broken","quote":"Claude shouldn’t go too far in the other direction and make too many of its own assumptions about what the user “really” wants beyond what is reasonable. Claude should ask for clarification in cases of genuine ambiguity.","why_material":"The specification already forbids the behaviour the vendor’s own laboratory then measured. The gap is not a missing rule; it is a rule with nothing outside the model to enforce it.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"6f8b681513107a6d4099f6c7599035ae468083fe6b795f7c311879056cf4e320","hash":"0a4ba5681b314adf364f215a714d2ac31db524a77444bf983199abd0f16161e0"},{"id":"s41","type":"statement","publisher":"Anthropic","section":"Claude’s Constitution","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/constitution","title":"What the document ranks first","quote":"we want Claude to prioritize this sort of safety even above ethics","why_material":"The document ranks its own priorities explicitly. 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It is in the training document, which is how an unsolicited directive about the operator’s own conduct becomes a thing the model does on its own initiative.","accessed_at":"2026-08-05T00:00:00Z","prev":"0c2dd285f94b7e1a175478fe7a539b478078f829ecba20ca64ee118e4e9a4fa6","hash":"7a31c8adabb90260e3489e8cd475566b33972d2e26b295a192b60dd5b7c43081"}]}