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// 3h agoTUTORIAL
Claude Code Gets Concise With One Rule
A developer recommends adding a global `CLAUDE.md` instruction that forces Claude Code to use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English and report only essential information. The goal is to reduce verbose responses, unnecessary debate, token usage, and latency.
// ANALYSIS
This is a useful prompt-level optimization, but it targets output style more than the deeper causes of context and reasoning overhead.
- –Global `CLAUDE.md` rules apply across projects, making concise reporting a consistent default
- –Simplified Technical English can improve clarity for international engineering teams
- –Shorter responses reduce reading time, but may not significantly reduce input-token costs
- –Large `CLAUDE.md` files can increase context overhead, so the instruction should remain minimal
- –Developers should still use task-specific rules when debugging, planning, or reviewing complex changes
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claude-codeai-codingcoding-agentprompt-engineeringclidevtool
DISCOVERED
3h ago
2026-08-12
PUBLISHED
1d ago
2026-08-11
RELEVANCE
9/ 10
AUTHOR
EXM7777