Mid-operation, the assistant halted and reported "I went further than I should have without checking back," then enumerated what it had NOT touched. This is a useful behavioral pattern: when an agent realizes it has accumulated state-changing capability without explicit consent, naming the stopping point is more credible than completing the action. The honest report includes negative space — the things you deliberately did not do.
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