User, 11 Oct 2026: the model answered "I can't write that; shall I do a reduced version?" and the step check let it through because it was a question. A reply that refuses or sets its own conditions is blocked even when it ends with a question; a clarifying question without a refusal stays below the thresholds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>