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Claude Code v2.1.227 ·

Output-style guidance rewritten without em dashes

Claude's response-style guidance was reworded to drop em dashes.

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.227
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.227,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The response-style prose replaces its em-dash asides with colons and commas. The code-comment rule now ends "it's noise the moment the change merges" instead of referring to a PR.

Evidence

it's noise the moment the change merges

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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