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I must have missed something but can't you just prompt it to answer in your desired style? What am I missing here.

Commenting because I am struggling with this too, claude code seems to be so verbose no matter how I prompt it.

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You miss that it is not just your prompt but also the various system prompts, plus how the model was trained. But you can reduce the verbosity (also with a setting in /config).
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By default? I doubt it would be useful or desirable for 95% of users. I'm guessing most people find natural language easiest to read, STE seems to be like a project almost akin to Esperanto or Lojban.
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