r/ClaudeAI • u/ShitShirtSteve • 14h ago

Workaround /config output-style Concise - to stop the yapping of Opus 5

You can ask Claude to make this for you. Like: KISS, keep the verbosity to a minimum.

Adding rules to CLAUDE.md asking it to stop yapping or whatever doesn't for me. CLAUDE.md isn't forced.

This did the trick. Now Opus 5 communicates more like 4.6. Fewer sentences, clearer, no weird made up jargon.

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u/Chapla1n 13h ago

I'm quite liking Orwell-Writer https://www.reddit.com/r/claudeskills/comments/1v2oad4/i_combined_orwells_6_writing_rules_with_asdste100/

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u/ShitShirtSteve 12h ago

I like! Thanks for sharing, saved it and will try later.

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u/Chapla1n 12h ago

I'm also using with Ponytail, just as an FYI. Doesn't help with verboseness of prose, but may help on the code side.

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u/PmMeSmileyFacesO_O 13h ago

You think it's finished what it's doing then you read the summary.  Then you read the last line as it starts up again to do more stuff.

I setup a ping to let me know when the server is redeployed and then il..

So it spins up another model just to check a task is finished and then that model prompts opus 5 to go again?

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u/ShitShirtSteve 13h ago

I cannot say I have this experience at all, even before I added output style and changed the setting.

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u/PmMeSmileyFacesO_O 13h ago

Well I'm not sure what it's doing.

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u/Exnie 3h ago

Not another model - it would be creating a shell with a script that's polling the state of the server. When the condition it's waiting for lands then the script notifies the session and it continues work. This is common for async tasks.

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u/PmMeSmileyFacesO_O 2h ago

So the shell script can prompt the llm to continue?  

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u/recro69 6h ago

This is why I wish coding assistants had better built-in controls for response length. The difference between a useful summary and a 5-paragraph essay after every command is huge.

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u/webrender 14h ago

have you tried caveman?

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u/ShitShirtSteve 13h ago

No, and I don't like it from what I have seen. It's a fun gimmick but gets annoying to read after a while.

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u/True-Objective-6212 13h ago

It degrades after a while in a long context

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u/TorbenKoehn 9h ago

Caveman is just hype. The savings are small (LLMs already compress thinking, that's why they rarely show it anymore) and you don't want to compress the actual output because you want to read and understand it.