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OpenAI's Model Spec Drops Most Style Rules and Tells GPT to Read Prompts for Intent

Community description: OpenAI rewrote its Model Spec around five values on October 29. What it means for your system prompt, your output format and untrusted tool data.

Dev.to | Oct 31, 2026 | Gabriel Anhaia

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The five values now frame the whole document, as headings in its overview (Model Spec). Guideline-level defaults sit below those and can be overridden by context (Unite.AI, Model Spec). A spec tells you what a model is supposed to do.

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