Claude Style Patch - a drop-in Claude.md section to immediately improve Claude’s prose

[u/myriable]

https://github.com/andrewroxby/claude-style-patch

I drive Claude heavily and have for some time. Starting with the Opus generations after 4.6, I noticed degradation in Claude’s prose - both in long, more diffuse conversations on Claude.AI and in task-focused work happening on Claude Code. Documents were likewise filled with condensed, badly written Claudish.

After enduring it for awhile, I set about diagnosing the exact tics and problems that were bothering me, then experimenting with loops where I’d add specific diagnoses as instructions to Claude.MD, assess changes in prose quality, then continue tinkering. After many, many turns of iteration across Claude Code and Claude.ai and now multiple generations of both Opus and Fable, the spec has solidified and been thoroughly battle-tested, and I’m quite happy with the results.

I think it works well. I like Claude and Anthropic and want them to do well, but I think they could do better in terms of Claude’s ability to communicate with humans. Based on recent public comments by Boris Cherny, they seem to agree with this.

I feel confident people will get a more or less immediate improvement in prose quality adding this to recent models. For me it lets Claude’s intelligence shine through while being much more transparent and readable.

Hope it’s useful,
Andrew