Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
We have to summarize an article that is truncated: The user says "use about 4000 words to Summarize the following news article: It feels good… Almost all o… [+59853 chars]". The article is extremely long (over 59k chars). We cannot see the rest. We need to summarize it in about 4000 words. But we don't have the full article content. We need to find an approach.
Given we can't access the article, we need to handle gracefully. We could ask for more context or say we cannot. But the instructions: We must produce a summary. We might attempt to reconstruct the gist based on available snippet: "It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I hope to get that review out soon. Almost all o…". It's about GPT-5.4. So likely a blog post by an AI developer about new GPT-5.4 release, commentary, reaction, etc. The article is very long. The user wants 4000 words summary. That's huge. 4000 words is about 20-25 pages. That would be unrealistic.
Given policy: The assistant should not fabricate missing content. So we should ask for more details or explain that we don't have the article. But user specifically says "use about 4000 words to Summarize the following news article: …". We need to comply but we don't have content. We can request the full article. Or we can approximate with what we have. But user may expect a summary. It's impossible.
We could respond: "I need the full article." We must be honest. The policy says we cannot hallucinate. So we should request the full article text. Also we must keep within token limits.
Hence answer: ask user to provide full article. Or ask for key points.
Let's comply with guidelines: It's a safe request. We'll politely ask for the full article.I’m happy to help with a detailed summary, but I’ll need the full text of the article to do it accurately. Could you please provide the complete article (or at least the sections you’d like summarized)? Once I have that, I can craft a comprehensive 4,000‑word summary for you.