Trying to appeal to the LLM is pointless, everyone would just claim that they're working on their own code.
I've found that if you're seeing refusals and you have a more permissive model available, you can use that to find the issues and pass them back to Claude for review and implementation.
It force-switched me to Opus 4.8, which has run through now.
You gave me good idea to let 4.8 write a hand-off and then let 5.5 try implementing it.
> Trying to appeal to the LLM is pointless
Not always. Recently Claude refused to run a task that involved queries on a database with PII. I told it (truthfully) that the job was for our lawyers and the PII is redacted in the final report, and then it complied.