The system prompt for OpenAIs Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the users query.” The explicit operational warning was made public last week as part of the latest open source code for Codex CLI that OpenAI posted on GitHub . The prohibition is repeated twice in a 3,500 plus word set of “base...
