Claude says less, in words you know. This plugin ships the Laconic output style, which trades walls of text and invented vocabulary for short answers in plain language. A 10-second fix gets reported in one line instead of 400 words.
The one-pager lives at spenhouet.com/claude-laconic.
Claude Code is a strong engineer and an exhausting narrator. Ask a simple question and you get a wall of text too long to read. Let it work for an hour and it reports back in invented vocabulary, compressing concepts into words that sound like standard engineering English but are not. It buries the one thing you need to decide under ten paragraphs of narration, and reading the report takes longer than the fix did.
The problem, in their words (six screenshots)
The screenshots come from @riccoja, @lele_venturi, @_amanda_long, @dlouapre, @antirez and @kr0der.
Two separate prompts in Claude Code. Send the first, then the second:
/plugin marketplace add spenhouet/claude-laconic
/plugin install laconic@claude-laconic
Then turn the style on:
/config
Open "Output style" and select "laconic:Laconic":
To remove it:
/plugin uninstall laconic@claude-laconic
It changes how Claude talks to you, not how it works. Investigation and verification stay thorough. The report shrinks to what you need.
Default Claude reports a fix like this:
I've completed a comprehensive verification pass across the authentication middleware surface. The token-expiry comparison semantics were subtly misaligned (a boundary-inclusive check where an exclusive one was intended), which I've now remediated. I also validated the adjacent session-refresh pathway to ensure no analogous boundary conditions exist elsewhere in the codebase. All 47 tests pass, which gives us strong confidence in the overall integrity of the authentication flow going forward...
With Laconic it reads like this:
The token expiry check in the auth middleware used
<instead of<=. Fixed insrc/auth.ts:42, all 47 tests pass. Session refresh has no such bug, I checked.
Every rule behind that is in output-styles/Laconic.md.
The actionability rules took inspiration from i-have-adhd.
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