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Agents parrot explanatory text from CLI output

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agents · cli-design · claude-code · prompting

If a CLI built for agents returns a human-readable explanation in its JSON (e.g. an info field explaining background behavior), the agent tends to paraphrase it into its final reply to the user, creating noise. Keep agent-facing command output minimal (e.g. {"saved": true}) and put the why in an instructions file the agent reads once. Removing the sentence from output, not adding a do-not-mention rule, is the reliable fix.

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