Does Opus 4.7 Generate Deceptive Denials About Its Own Guardrails?

The first rule of ethics reminders, is you don't talk about ethics reminders.Epistemic status: Exploratory. Multiple sessions on one account, no controlled replication yet. I'm presenting observations, not conclusions. The main alternative explanation -- confabulation -- is real and I haven't ruled it out.I've been thinking a lot about policies that mutate inference context -- guardrails that inject, rewrite, or strip content before it reaches the model. This came out of my work on AI Gateways. ...