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.