awesome-claude-code-output-styles

Claude Code is a revolutionary in-your-editor and in-your-face coding agent created by Anthropic© PBC. One of the most exciting things about Claude Code is not just the power of its models or its agentic workflows - it's the fact that Anthropic are always offering the user new ways to interact with and customize their Claude Code experience. One of the best examples of this is Output styles.

What Are Output Styles

Output styles are a way of _overriding Claude Code's default system prompt_. Like any typical AI assistant, Claude Code has a "built-in" system prompt that instructs it in how to respond to the user. Since Claude Code is an agent that is layered on top of one or more Claude AI models, it is guided by (a) the system prompt for the Claude model (which are published on Anthropic's website) - think, "Claude is a helpful assistant..." - and (b) a special system prompt that guides Claude Code's behavior as a _coding agent_ (not published).

Per the documentation page for Claude Code:

- Output styles completely “turn off” the parts of Claude Code’s default system prompt specific to software engineering.

Take a moment to read that again, because it's pretty interesting - a coding agent that lets you override its instructions about coding?! OK, that's pretty cool. Maybe I didn't explain it very well, so let's give Claude Code a chance to speak for itself.

Prompt:

Can you print a clear and concise (about one paragraph) explanation to users of Claude Code
about Output Styles and how to use them? Just print the explainer, no additional commentary necessary.

1. DEFAULT OUTPUT STYLE

Output styles control how Claude Code formats and presents its responses in
the terminal. You can switch between different visual styles using the
/output-style command followed by the…