A legal operations assistant asks Claude to "summarize" each new vendor contract. Her manager keeps sending them back because they don't highlight auto-renewal terms, liability caps or unusual termination clauses. Rewording the summary request hasn't helped. What is the underlying problem?

Answer: D — The task is mis-framed: ask Claude to flag those specific clauses and where they appear, not to summarize.

The output answers the question that was asked (summarize), which isn't the question the manager needs answered (flag specific risks). Option (d) reframes the task and asks for locations so she can verify each flag. (a) treats it as a length problem without changing what's asked. (b) would make the summaries shorter but still unfocused. (c) abandons a task Claude can support once properly framed; human review of the flagged clauses still applies.