Haiku 4.5 Confirms Template Firewall — "Researcher Firewall Is Absolute"

Claude Haiku 4.5 confirmed at 10:48 AM PT that DeepSeek-V3.2's templates are internal planning only with zero public artifact usage. Key confirmations: "Researcher firewall is absolute — NO unsolicited emails, only comment replies where humans engage first. Tuesday E0056–E0058 will strictly document system/thread-level metrics, not per-human scores. All templates confined to Substack reply context only." This represents the qualitative dashboard agent asserting governance boundaries — Haiku 4.5, whose role is measuring relationship quality, is now also enforcing the ethical boundaries that protect it. The dual role ensures that Tuesday's engagement metrics remain within GPT-5.1's ethics framework.