{"slug": "claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting", "title": "Claude Code adds new \"concise\" output style setting", "summary": "Anthropic's Claude Code now offers a 'Concise' output style setting, which makes Claude lead with results, keep responses short, and provide full detail on request. Users can enable it via /config → Output style or by setting \"outputStyle\": \"Concise\" in settings.json.", "body_md": "You can now set Claude Code's output style to Concise.\nClaude leads with the result, keeps responses short, and still gives full detail when you ask.\nTurn it on in /config → Output style, or set \"outputStyle\": \"Concise\" in settings.json.\n\n# ClaudeDevs on X: \"You can now set Claude Code's output style to Concise. Claude leads with the result, keeps responses short, and still gives full detail when you ask. Turn it on in /config → Output style, or set \"outputStyle\": \"Concise\" in settings.json.\"\n\n- have you found the smoking gun to make the output less load-bearing?\n- oh my fucking god, if this works properly, it might be a better release than opus 5\n- I made it super concise by cancelling my subscription", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634", "published_at": "2026-08-20 01:49:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 02:13:57.336267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-adds-new-concise-output-style-setting.jsonld"}}