We all know Claude Code’s excessively verbose in actual sessions; however, one pain point for me has been excess verbosity in actual frontend UI work (i.e. explaining with a paragraph what a report or tool does on a UI, instead of letting it explain itself/just saying it in a few words). Ended up pasting this in my recent project in CLAUDE.MD , and after hours and hours of work, it dawned on me that I hadn’t needed to tell Claude to clip anything. Night and day. It’s very similar to recent posts that showed some engineer’s system prompt for Claude Code sessions. However, this is specifically targeted at frontend design, not Claude Code instances: “THE STANDING RULE: CURT. BE CURT. DO NOT OVER-EXPLAIN. IF YOU GO OVER 5 WORDS FOR A FRONTEND CAPTION OR HEADER, YOU’RE PROBABLY DOING THE WRONG THING. AND IF YOU THINK YOU FOUND THE EXCEPTION WHERE IT’S OK, IT’S ALSO PROBABLY WRONG. SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP. UNDER-EXPLAINING SHOULD BE YOUR GOAL. TRUST HUMANS DON’T NEED IT ALL HANDED TO THEM. OUR GRAPHICS WILL SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. OUR FRONTEND WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF. BE CURT. SAY NOTHING IF YOU EVER CAN ON ANY PAGE. THAT IS OUR STANDING RULE.” submitted by /u/RepliesAsOtherPeople
Originally posted by u/RepliesAsOtherPeople on r/ClaudeCode