The gryphon fix added six armour negatives and three weapon ones, which took
the prompt to eight --no terms. This project has a recorded case where ten or
more never returned a grid at all while the same prompt with four came back
in two minutes — and a job that never arrives is indistinguishable from a
moderation refusal, because those are ephemeral and never appear in the
channel either. It cost twenty minutes of wondering whether the account was
out of fast hours, and the note about it was written down precisely so it
would not be diagnosed from scratch a second time. I walked into it anyway.
Trimmed to three armour terms and one weapon term, which puts every prompt at
five. promptFor now throws above six and names the offending terms, so the
next person to reach for a long negative list is stopped at the tool rather
than by a half-hour stall. All 204 specs build under the cap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
