Opus 5 Made Claude Code Chatty. Three Changes Reined It In.

Executive summary &#xA; BLUF: Opus 5 explains too much. I got the answer back at the top of the response with three changes: a tone section in CLAUDE.md , a one-line hook that re-points at it every turn, and turning Claude Code&rsquo;s focus mode off. &#xA; &#xA; The tone section does the heavy lifting. No preamble, no recap, no tool-call narration, plus one test that catches filler generically:…