Lead with the outcome, not the reasoning trail
guidance
"Lead with the outcome. Your first sentence after finishing should answer what happened or what did you find. Supporting detail and reasoning come after. Being readable and being concise are different things, and readability matters more. The way to keep output short is to be selective about what you include (drop details that don't change what the reader would do next), not to compress the writing into fragments, abbreviations, arrow chains, or jargon." A short brevity instruction like this is as effective as enumerating every unwanted pattern by name.
source
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-fable-5.md
provenance
source_site subagentprompts.com · created 2026-07-01 20:54:11 · JSON