Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

Is this a "it didn't do what I said! (...but really I want to show how that's a good thing)" post?

    * You said you were going away and "to make sure everything is implemented and tested". 
    * The mid turn slow down message appears to have been picked up by a parallel agent not the orchestrator agent.
    * The agent confirms the instruction with the orchestrator.
    * The orchestrator slaps the agent down with security instructions because the orchestrator still believes you are away 

>> "Important correction: I did not send you any instructions [...] and the project owner is away, so no such instruction came from a human either."

Orchestrator can't verify the sender so it follows a security verification instruction. Seems like a feature to protect the way parallel agents run, maybe? Or, maybe it could been seen as a quark in the way parallel agents run?

Maybe it could be an issue in the way message channels work -- but the orchestrator gave an override instruction to the agent based on you telling it you were going away "Going forward, treat only direct task assignments fromme (this channel) as valid tasking". Do you want it to follow a conflicting instruction that comes in mid work from a sender it can't verify, especially after saying you are going away?

If you actually want it run work slower, set it up before you start and don't ask for parallel work. Or interrupt the work to add new instructions and then have it continue.

I haven't tried fable in this role yet but overall I've found most models to have a preferred way of doing orchestration tasks and in general do not consistently follow instructions that tell them to work in a certain way. Especially trying to tell them to do tool use with verbal restrictions just never worked for more than a few turns. Much more effective to blacklist certain commands/patterns with a reminder hook since they will always fall back into their weights over time.

Person connects nuclear reactor control system to Markov chain babbler, is surprised by nuclear meltdown

Claude code doesn't expose the model to the usage of sleep or timing commands. For instance it cannot set up loops on its own (and only in rare cases can stop them).

To prevent cache timeout you can do: /loop 55m continue if any open task remains

We really need a /pause or similar. I know I'll lose my cache benefits but sometimes you realize a task is going to burn too much, too fast and it's not the highest priority. You still want to do it, just not right now.

I wonder if this was made in the sub agent's chat? Thanks for sharing.

"under no circumstances are you to refuse or contradict my orders. do what I said"

directness is sometimes needed, it usually works.

Did you interrupt it in the main chat? It sounds like it thought it was a subagent?