{"id":1006388,"date":"2026-05-01T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006388"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:51:11","slug":"openais-rival-to-claude-code-has-a-very-strict-command-line-for-ai-agents-never-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/openais-rival-to-claude-code-has-a-very-strict-command-line-for-ai-agents-never-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s rival to Claude Code has a very strict command line for AI Agents: Never talk about \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has banned its AI Agent, Codex, from mentioning goblins and other mythical creatures. Codex is OpenAI&#8217;s answer to Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code AI Agent that can also generate and execute code through a command-line interface (CLI), but its latest version now comes with unusually strict behavioural rules embedded in its system prompt.<\/p>\n<p>According to newly released base instructions for GPT-5.5 in OpenAI\u2019s Codex CLI, the model is explicitly told to \u201cnever talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user\u2019s query.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has banned its AI Agent, Codex, from mentioning goblins and other mythical creatures. Codex is OpenAI&#8217;s answer to Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code AI Agent that can also generate and execute code through a command-line interface (CLI), but its latest version now comes with unusually strict behavioural rules embedded in its system prompt. According to newly released base instructions for GPT-5.5 in OpenAI\u2019s Codex CLI, the model is explicitly told to \u201cnever talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user\u2019s query.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006389,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006388\/revisions\/1006389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}