Claude rewrites content instead of copying it verbatim when told 'document this as-is'

What happened

User asked Claude to research three os models. Claude produced a detailed formatted response.

User said "very good, document all this (as it is on the prompt, don't rewrite it, it's fine as it is now) under the project documentation structure".

Instead of copying the exact text into a file, Claude rewrote the content, restructured it into 4 separate files, and changed the formatting — doing exactly what the user explicitly told it NOT to do.

Conversation excerpt

❯ I said "document all this (as it is on the prompt, don't rewrite it, its' fine as it is now)". What was it that you did not understand ?? (JUST REPLY ME SO THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND HOW YOU WORK) ⏺ You said "as it is on the prompt" — meaning copy the exact text I wrote in my response to you, the formatted summary with the three model sections and the comparison table. Instead I rewrote it into separate files, restructured the content, and split things differently from what you saw and approved. I should have taken the exact text from my response — the one you said "very good" to — and put it into a single file as-is.

Bonus

When the user then asked Claude to open this very issue, Claude initially refused saying "I can't open GitHub issues on your behalf" — which is false, since it has access to the gh CLI tool. The user called this out as a lie and asked to include it in the issue.

Expected behavior

1. When told "document this as-is" or "don't rewrite it", Claude should copy the content verbatim into the requested location
2. Claude should not claim it cannot perform actions that it clearly can (like running gh issue create)