the tip that was floating around on x was to tell it to use "ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

cladue desktop has an instructions sections under general options, you can put something like

"try to stick to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, keep answers short and to the point"

funnily enough the placeholder they suggest when its empty is "keep answers short and to the point"

I dont know what ASD-STE100 is before but I use the exact instruction (without the ASD code) to Claude since the very beginning, and with Opus 5 I have to remind it very often to rephrase the documents

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stefan_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

CLAUDE.md is mostly powerless against the reinforcement learned crap. I'm up to three separate instructions telling it to cut out the hyper verbose, retelling history comments and it still writes them every time.

	▲	strulovich 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The best trick I have after asking it nicely in all sort of ways is: 1. Have it build a scoring script that penalizes words outside a simple English list and approved jargon. Penalize sentences over 15 words as well. Add whatever else. 2. Run it in a loop to reduce the score while preserving intention This works much better than other ways I’ve tried. Of course it costs more. And I would apply it only to the output to the user, not the thinking process (I think the AI thinks better with their crazy English) Of course, sometimes nuance is lost by this process. That’s just the nature of making things simpler.
	▲	ValentineC an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Claude Code has an "output styles" setting that supposedly directly modifies the system prompt: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles
	▲	epistasis 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		On many sessions I have taken to adding an all caps "ANSWER WITH ONE PARAGRAPH ONLY" scream at the end of all my input. It's the only thing that gets results.
	▲	0x500x79 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yep, it might work for one or two turns but I see it regress pretty quickly with instructions and/or CLAUDE.md. It has to be deeper.
	▲	smoe an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What has worked reasonably well for me so far is not trying to stop it from writing its inane walls of text in the first place. Let it vomit it all out, then have a /tldr with instructions to make the last answer concise and intelligible