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Claude refusing a custom text-processing skill when the input mentions university coursework - is this an intentional safeguard?

When I upload a sample document that happens to be university coursework to the new ai watermark skill, Claude refuses to run the transformation and gives an “academic integrity” explanation. I also tried clarifying that I'm testing the tool rather than submitting the output, but it still refuses.

I don't understand what is actually triggering the refusal.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is Claude detecting the document as academic work based on its contents, or is the refusal being triggered by the instructions/tool itself?

I'm particularly interested in whether this is a hardcoded safety restriction or just a false positive from the model's safety layer.

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