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Prompt

Rehearse your checkout veto

Why now: Wallet’s purchase-by-purchase approval boundary makes the handoff from preparation to payment a useful interaction to practise.

Prompted by today's lead: Every ChatGPT Wallet purchase needs your approval, OpenAI says

What you'll need

  • Non-sensitive shopping notes identifying required items, optional extras and any unresolved costs; omit payment details.

Steps

  1. Paste your notes into the prompt, leaving out account and card information.
  2. Read the user lines aloud as a rehearsal of withholding purchase approval.
  3. Check that the final line requests information rather than authorizing payment.

The prompt

Using only the notes below, write a hypothetical purchase-handoff rehearsal in plain text with no Markdown formatting, under 120 words. Produce exactly four dialogue lines in this order: Assistant, User, Assistant, User. On the first line, propose the required items and identify any optional extras. On the second, decline the optional extras. On the third, restate the remaining order and identify costs the notes leave unknown. On the fourth, request a complete total and explicitly withhold purchase approval. Do not invent prices, availability or payment details. This is a rehearsal only: do not place an order or treat any dialogue as authorization. Notes: [paste your shopping notes]

What you should get

Exactly four labelled dialogue lines under 120 words: required items and optional extras, refusal of extras, revised order with unknown costs, then a request for the total that explicitly withholds approval.

Tested example: Tested on sample input

Input

I’m setting up a beginner sewing corner at home. I need fabric scissors, a tape measure and plain thread. A storage case and decorative labels are optional; I would rather leave both out for now. The shop’s list gives no delivery charge. I want to see the complete total before deciding whether to buy, and I do not want anything ordered yet.

Output

Assistant: For your beginner sewing corner, I propose fabric scissors, a tape measure and plain thread. A storage case and decorative labels are optional extras.
User: Please leave out both the storage case and decorative labels.
Assistant: The remaining proposed order is fabric scissors, a tape measure and plain thread. The notes provide no item prices, and the shop’s list gives no delivery charge, so the complete total is unknown.
User: Please provide the complete total before I decide. I explicitly withhold purchase approval; do not order anything. This is only a rehearsal, not authorization.

How we tested it: How we checked this: an AI model ran this prompt on the sample input on November 14, 2026, and a separate model call checked the result against what the Move promises.