awesome-claude-output-styles

same brain. nineteen mouths.

Make Claude talk like a human. 19 installable output styles for Claude Code,
each distilled from a credited author's methodology — from Boeing-manual English
to the Minto Pyramid to bedtime stories. One curl to install and switch.

See it · Install · The styles · Make your own · Design rules · Catalog

Output styles are the right layer for fixing Claude's voice: they rewrite the
system prompt itself and reframe the agent's identity around your voice —
unlike CLAUDE.md rules, which are injected as context alongside everything
else. Every style here mirrors the exact structure of Anthropic's built-in
styles (identity line, Style Active marker, procedural rules), and the
optional --enforce hook gives them the same per-turn reminder the built-ins
get from the harness. One markdown file each, correct 2026 frontmatter,
MIT-licensed, with the original author credited in the table below.

Why

_{Niklas Gruhn, "Don't be a meat proxy" · as shared by Josh (@joshtriedcoding)}

Jesus. I had to lookup almost every word to make sense of this.

He's not alone — the August 2026 complaint threads run hundreds of upvotes,
and the word "Claudisms" now has its own field guide.
The model is brilliant; the register is exhausting. Pick a voice below and fix
it in one command.

Before / after

Real, unedited Opus 5 voice, July 2026 threads:

The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're
creating a new object reference on each render cycle, which breaks React's
referential equality check, so you may want to consider memoization…

The same answer, six voices:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  styles                          19              │
│  credited authors & standards    20+             │
│  code touched by any persona     never           │
│  jargon left unexplained         0, by spec      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Install

One style (installs and activates it):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smixs/awesome-claude-output-styles/main/install.sh | bash -s -- eli15

Everything (installs all 19 + the style-maker skill; activate later via /config):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smixs/awesome-claude-output-styles/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --all

After install — 3 steps. Styles only load at session start, so nothing
changes until you restart Claude Code:

1. Restart Claude Code (or run /clear).
2. Type /config and find the Output style setting.
3. Pick the style you want from the list. Done — Claude answers in that voice
   from the next message on.

If you installed a single style, it's already selected — you only need step 1.
Switching back: /config → Output style → Default.

[!TIP]
The old /output-style command was removed in Claude Code v2.1.91 — most
guides online still mention it and are outdated. /config is the way.

Make it stick: --enforce

Claude Code reminds itself about its built-in styles every single turn
("Explanatory output style is active. Remember to follow…") — but never about
custom ones, so custom voices fade over a long session. Add --enforce to any
install command and a tiny
UserPromptSubmit hook replicates that exact
reminder for whatever style you have active:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smixs/awesome-claude-output-styles/main/install.sh | bash -s -- eli15 --enforce

The hook is silent for built-in styles (no double reminders) and for
default. Remove it anytime by deleting the entry from
~/.claude/settings.json → hooks.UserPromptSubmit.

The styles

Understand — for explaining to humans

Business — for decision-makers

Terse — for speed

Fun — personas that still get it right

Make your own: style-maker

Presets not fitting? Install the interview skill:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smixs/awesome-claude-output-styles/main/install.sh | bash -s -- style-maker

Then tell Claude "make my output style". It asks ~10 questions (audience,
length, jargon level, tone, samples of writing you like and hate), generates
a personal style file following this repo's conventions — countable specs,
positive framing, safety guardrails — shows you a live demo, and activates it.

Shared design rules

Every style in this hub follows the same conventions
(full authoring guide: docs/format-guide.md):

• Specs, not adjectives. "No sentence over 20 words" is checkable;
  "be clear" is not.
• Positive framing. Styles describe the voice they want. Ban lists summon
  the banned patterns — so the Claudism list lives
  in docs for humans, not inside prompts.
• Byte-exact guardrails. Code, commands, error messages, file paths, and
  numbers are never stylized. Every persona shuts off for security warnings,
  destructive-action confirmations, and order-critical instructions.
• Cut ceremony, not reasoning. Styles shrink the wrapper, never the
  "why".
• keep-coding-instructions: true everywhere — the engineering stays intact.

The wider catalog

Original-author projects worth knowing, beyond what's adapted here:

• mattpocock/skills — Matt Pocock
  (@mattpocockuk): wait-what, the four-line
  re-pitch panic button, and writing-for-agents, the best methodology for
  writing agent-consumed docs. Install from his repo.
• JuliusBrussee/caveman — Julius
  Brussee (@julius_brussee): the original,
  with six intensity levels, 30+ agent integrations and real benchmarks.
• ayghri/i-have-adhd — Ayoub Ghriss:
  the top community answer to Opus 5 verbosity.
• AminBlg/SimpleEnglish — Amin
  Boulegroun: ASD-STE100 enforcement with a deterministic linter.
• blader/humanizer — Siqi Chen
  (@blader): the definitive AI-writing-pattern
  remover (33 patterns, self-audit loop).
• petergyang/no-ai-slop — Peter
  Yang (@petergyang): 20+ slop patterns with a
  voice-preservation-first stance and a self-check eval the skill runs on its
  own output.
• hardikpandya/stop-slop —
  Hardik Pandya (@hvpandya): 8 rules plus a
  50-point scoring rubric.
• conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
  — Conor Bronsdon (@ConorBronsdon): the most
  rigorous pattern catalog (61 categories, severity tiers).
• nattergabriel/claude-code-output-styles —
  13 well-crafted styles (Socratic, Roast, Ship It…).
• hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code —
  the canonical Claude Code index, with an Output Styles category.

Sister project

pohuy — the Russian profanity output
style that started this collection. Same guardrails, four roots, 18+.

Star this repo

If one of these voices saved you a re-read, a star helps the next person find
it — and helps the credited authors get found too. ⭐

Contributing

PRs welcome. One style per PR, following
docs/format-guide.md: built-in prompt structure
(identity line, Style Active header), countable specs, positive framing,
the shared guardrails block, one positive example, a verify clause, credits
in docs/CREDITS.md — not in the style body. If you're the
original author of a methodology we adapted and want changes — open an issue,
you outrank us.

License

MIT. Adapted styles preserve their sources' copyright notices; see
docs/CREDITS.md and the catalog tables above.