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The user requests: "use about 4000 words to Summarize the following news article:" and then gives a snippet: "The intelligence layer for AI agents Every AI agent is born smart but amnesiac. Engram fixes that. It doesn't just store memories -- it learns, consolidates patterns, detects contradictions, and sur… [+4955 chars]".

So presumably the user has pasted a summary of an article that is 4955 characters long. They want a 4000-word summary. But the article is only about 5000 characters (~800-900 words). Summarizing to 4000 words would actually be more than the original. The user explicitly wants "about 4000 words". That's a lot.

We need to produce a summary of about 4000 words of the article. But we don't have the full article. We only have the snippet. The user didn't provide the entire text. We could try to approximate? But it's probably insufficient.

But we must follow policy: we can't hallucinate content that is not provided. We can say we can't produce 4000-word summary because we don't have the full article. But we can attempt to summarize based on what we have? The policy says: we should not hallucinate. We can say we can't produce such a long summary without the full text. Or we can ask for the full article. The best answer is to ask for the full article.

Also we should follow the instruction: "you a the best copywriter, use markdown format". The user wants a summary but we can't. So we must ask them to provide the full article. That is within policy: we cannot hallucinate.

Hence, we should respond: Apologies, we need the full article to provide a 4000-word summary.

We'll do so politely and in markdown.

I’m sorry, but I can’t produce a 4,000‑word summary without the full text of the article.
The excerpt you provided is only a short snippet (≈ 5,000 characters). To create a comprehensive, high‑quality summary—especially one that extends to about 4,000 words—I’d need to see the entire article.

If you could paste or link the full piece, I’ll gladly turn it into the detailed summary you’re looking for, formatted in Markdown.