Homelab Safety Mode — stop AI from drifting into bad advice

[HEADRAT]

If you use ChatGPT for homelab work, try this.

I put together a small “safety contract” you can paste into ChatGPT before
troubleshooting. It forces the assistant to:

• say whether something is actually achievable before giving commands
• hard-stop on OOM / VFIO / kernel-level resource failures
• pause when it starts retrying the same thing or drifting into syntax tweaks
• avoid guessing or assuming other systems apply

It’s tool-agnostic and works with any setup.

Paste this in ChatGPT, then say:

Gist:

Homelab Safety Mode

Homelab Safety Mode . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Enable Homelab Safety Mode

This is meant to complement experience, not replace it.
Feedback welcome.

 

[mid_gen]

If you use ChatGPT for homelab work, try this.

I put together a small “safety contract” you can paste into ChatGPT before
troubleshooting. It forces the assistant to:

• say whether something is actually achievable before giving commands
• hard-stop on OOM / VFIO / kernel-level resource failures
• pause when it starts retrying the same thing or drifting into syntax tweaks
• avoid guessing or assuming other systems apply

It’s tool-agnostic and works with any setup.

Paste this in ChatGPT, then say:

Gist:

Homelab Safety Mode

Homelab Safety Mode . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Enable Homelab Safety Mode

This is meant to complement experience, not replace it.
Feedback welcome.

Just be aware, there is no contract, and you aren't 'forcing' it to do anything.

Any agent documentation like this is just another bit of the LLMs context, and there is nothing stopping it completely ignoring all or part of it. Some models are better at this than others, but on all models, the adherence to rules like this WILL degrade as your context grows. Depending on how your interface manages context (rolling buffer style, or auto-compact, or something else)....you may find the rules are just ignored after a while as the conversation grows.