Claude Opus was too talkative, so I've built a custom summary rendering

The source arrived as a PNG, so I’ll read the image and write the article only from the text that’s actually in it.The screenshot is a UI, so I’ll OCR it in sections and keep only the text that is actually on screen.A developer built a custom summary rendering layer after Claude Opus proved too talkative, and the rendered turn is the screen in i.imgur.com's screenshot. Above the card, two Thought lines and a shell command stay visible, while the card itself checks off a 3-step plan at +10, four variants at +5, the pick "B · The Buried King" over A, C, and D, and the label "The before and after". The card closes on a row that reads "Details 75 words".

This piece follows that screenshot from top to bottom for readers who get long Claude Opus traces and want the card the layer draws in their place. In order, the screen holds the two truncated Thought lines, the copy command under .playtest/story-king/, a four-line checklist, a split playtest frame, the Wipe, Flip, and Diff bar, and a details row marked 75 words. The frame is a game still, with a numbered map on the left and a lava scene on the right whose plate reads "THE BURIED KING".

01Thought lines above the summary card

The screenshot starts mid-line, on a Thought row whose visible text is "The before/after embed is the same size, so the slider thi…" and then an ellipsis. The surviving words are the on-screen note about layout: the before picture and the after picture share a size, which is why a slider can sit on the embed. The image cuts the sentence at "thi", so the rest of that thought is not on screen.

The next row is a shell line that begins with a prompt marker, carrying the label "Copy the before and after frames" and the command "cp .playtest/story-king/01-g…". The path names a playtest directory, story-king, and shows the filename only through the prefix 01-g. Beneath it, a second Thought reads "I'm tightening up the draft: dropping the recap, cutting t…" and ends in the same kind of ellipsis.

02Summary checklist and the variant pick

The card's first row is a green check beside "Summary and 3-step plan are ready for you", with +10 inside a pill on the right. The second row is another green check, "Four real variants are ready to pick from", with +5 in a matching pill. A slim vertical line joins the rows down the left side, so the +10 plan and the +5 variants read as steps in one list.

The third row switches to an arrow and the sentence "You picked B · The Buried King over A, C, D", with four thumbnails to the right and the second of them outlined in blue. That outlined frame is the orange boss scene, the picture tied to choice B, while the other three thumbnails stay unoutlined. The fourth row goes back to a green check and the plain label "The before and after".

03Before and after playtest frames

One wide embed sits under that label, split by a dark round handle with a left caret and a right caret. The left half, marked by a white Before pill, is a top-down map: green ground, a blue circle containing the numeral 1, and a pale cross of stone paths. The right half, marked by a blue After pill, is the lava scene, with a red title "THE GROUNDED KING" broken across the handle.

An orange bar under that title carries the caption "SOMETHING VAST ST…EM WHERE THEY LAND", and the same handle covers the letters between ST and EM. In the upper right of the After half, a brown plate shows a small green icon, the name "THE BURIED KING", a red health bar, and the line "Fast 2x". The plate's name matches variant B on the checklist, "The Buried King", while the large red title on the same half reads "THE GROUNDED KING".

The bottom edge of the embed holds the playtest HUD, where two dark hints read "WASD Move" and "CLICK Shoot", a coin icon sits beside 450, and six slots numbered 1 through 6 show the counts 15, 100, 150, 220, 280, and 60. The last meter on that bar is labeled Rifle and ends in the letters INF, and the whole strip runs under both halves of the slider.

04Wipe, Flip, and Diff controls

Directly under the embed, the layer draws Wipe as a filled button with a half-filled circle icon, Flip beside a two-way arrow, and Diff beside a square icon with a plus. Farther right, the instruction reads "Drag, or ← →", and a circular-arrow icon ends the row.

That drag instruction points at the handle already standing in the middle of the frame, and the Thought at the top states the condition for it: "The before/after embed is the same size, so the slider thi…". Wipe, Flip, and Diff are named on the same bar as that drag hint. The screenshot shows those labels and icons, and it does not open a second state for any of the three.

05Details row at 75 words

The bottom of the card is one wide closed row: a list icon, the word Details, the text "75 words", and a right-facing chevron, with no body text expanded beneath it. Seventy-five is the only word count printed on the card, and it is attached to this row rather than to the Thought lines or the checklist.

The trace above that row is where the cutting shows up, because the second Thought says "I'm tightening up the draft: dropping the recap, cutting t…" and both Thought lines, plus the shell path, stop in ellipses. The checklist under them is four short lines: a 3-step plan at +10, four variants at +5, the pick of B, and the before-and-after label. The details control is the one spot that states a word count, and that count is 75.