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Johnny Heo shares a tip for improving user-facing explanations by adding a style rule to agent or Claude.md files to write clearly without jargon, and setting personality to none in .codex/config.toml.

Fable and Sol tend to use a lot of jargon that's hard to understand on a first read, which slows me down a lot i've found incredible success adding the following to agents or claude.md Write user-facing explanations in clear, concise language without reducing technical precision. Prefer concrete wording over unexplained jargon. Use established domain terminology when it is the most precise choice, and briefly define it when the intended audience may not know it. Preserve material evidence, constraints, tradeoffs, caveats, and uncertainty. Do not rewrite code, identifiers, commands, quoted text, or prescribed formats merely to satisfy this style rule. and adding personality = "none" to ~/.codex/config.toml
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Fable and Sol tend to use a lot of jargon that’s hard to understand on a first read, which slows me down a lot

i’ve found incredible success adding the following to agents or claude.md

Write user-facing explanations in clear, concise language without reducing technical precision. Prefer concrete wording over unexplained jargon. Use established domain terminology when it is the most precise choice, and briefly define it when the intended audience may not know it. Preserve material evidence, constraints, tradeoffs, caveats, and uncertainty. Do not rewrite code, identifiers, commands, quoted text, or prescribed formats merely to satisfy this style rule.

and adding personality = “none” to ~/.codex/config.toml

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