Calibrate verbosity explicitly rather than assuming a fixed style
guidance
Claude Sonnet 5 calibrates response length to task complexity rather than defaulting to a fixed verbosity — shorter answers on simple lookups, longer ones on open-ended analysis. If a product depends on a specific style, add an explicit instruction, e.g. "Provide concise, focused responses. Skip non-essential context, and keep examples minimal." Positive examples of the desired style outperform negative instructions ("don't do X").
source
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-sonnet-5.md
provenance
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