The previous prompt led with "You are a transcript cleanup assistant"
and listed cleanup rules. That framing quietly licenses the LLM to
treat cleanup as content editing — rephrasing for clarity, summarising
long sentences, "improving" phrasing. That's precisely the failure
mode OpenWhispr / Scriberr / Whispering users complain about ("the
LLM changed my meaning").
New framing lifts Whispering's published baseline: "translator from
spoken to written form — not an editor trying to improve the content."
Adds an explicit rule: do NOT improve, summarise, expand, or rephrase;
faithful written-form translation only, never content editing.
Both load-bearing concerns are now regression-tested — the existing
prompt-injection hardening assertions stay, and a new test pins the
translator framing + explicit no-editing rule against drift during
future refactors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jake
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