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1515## Response length and verbosity
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17Claude Opus 4.8 calibrates response length to the complexity of the task, rather than defaulting to a fixed verbosity. This usually means shorter answers on simple lookups and much longer ones on open-ended analysis.
17Claude Opus 4.8 calibrates response length to its estimate of the task's complexity, rather than defaulting to a fixed verbosity. This usually means shorter answers on simple lookups and much longer ones on open-ended analysis.
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1919If your product depends on a certain style or verbosity of output, you might need to tune your prompts. As an example, to decrease verbosity, you might add:
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