Claude Code adds 'Concise' mode to cut response verbosity

Claude Code has just rolled out a new Concise output style, aimed at leading with results and trimming overly long responses. It’s available via /config and settings.json, and comes after growing user complaints about verbosity and context bloat.

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TL;DR

  • Concise output style: Leads with results, reduces verbosity; remains detailed when more information is requested
  • Enable via UI: /config → Output style, listed alongside Settings, Status, Usage, and Stats
  • Enable via config: Set "outputStyle": "Concise" in settings.json
  • Context: Introduced after complaints about overly long, spec-ignoring Claude Code responses
  • Team framing: Boris Cherny calls it a “quick band aid” pending a longer-term fix
  • Reports include reasoning_extraction errors in Fable and less natural, harder-to-understand shorter responses

Claude Code now offers a Concise output style designed to lead with results and reduce unnecessary verbosity. The setting was announced by ClaudeDevs on X, which states that responses will remain detailed when additional information is requested.

The style can be enabled through /config → Output style, where the configuration screen lists Concise alongside sections including Settings, Status, Usage and Stats. It can also be set in settings.json:

{
  "outputStyle": "Concise"
}

Source: ClaudeDevs on X

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