Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5

We need to summarize a news article that is extremely long (59853 chars). The user says "use about 4000 words". That's huge, but they ask for a summary. We can't process the entire article as it's truncated. We only have the first sentence and then a fragment: "It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I hope to get that review out soon. Almost all o… [+59853 chars]". So we don't have the actual article text. We cannot produce a summary.

Thus we should respond that we need the full article to summarize. Possibly we can ask for the full article or the rest. But the instruction is to summarize. We could say we cannot because we don't have enough content. So we should politely ask for the article.I’m happy to help with a detailed summary, but the excerpt you shared is only the opening line of the article, and the rest of the text isn’t visible. Without the full article (or at least a substantial portion of it), I can’t provide a comprehensive, 4,000‑word summary.

If you can share the complete article—or a more substantial excerpt—I'd gladly craft a thorough summary for you.

Read more