[Feature Request] Add built-in accessibility output style with answer-first formatting and complete sentences

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.220
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Jul 28, 2026

Bug Description
Accessibility feedback: readable output should not require this much engineering.

I have a reading disability. Dense prose and compressed fragments are both unreadable to me. I need short, numbered, complete sentences with the answer first.

Getting Claude Code to produce that took me weeks of failed CLAUDE.md iterations, then a full working session with Claude to discover output styles, write a custom style, fix rule conflicts, and patch new failure modes (fragment compression, restarted numbering) one at a time. I am a power user. Most people with reading disabilities would have given up.

Specific problems:

  1. CLAUDE.md formatting instructions decay over long sessions, and nothing in the product tells you that or points you to output styles as the durable layer.
  1. The /output-style command failed with "Unknown command" on my install and I had to find the setting through /config instead.
  1. When told to be brief, the model compresses sentences into fragments instead of omitting low-value content. For readers like me, fragments are as bad as walls of prose.

Request: ship a built-in accessibility-oriented output style (answer first, numbered complete sentences, blank lines between items, no fragments), surface it in onboarding, and document that CLAUDE.md is the wrong layer for formatting rules.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 2.1.220
  • Feedback ID: ae10863e-430a-424e-8dc4-4c82b669daf6

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