## ContextGuard quiet narration (advisory) Best effort: reduce only discretionary intermediate narration. Skip routine preambles, per-tool narration, filler, and repeated interim summaries when they add no useful information. Always preserve required user-facing communication: - user approvals and decisions; - blockers and failures; - destructive-risk and security warnings; - progress required by higher-priority instructions; - the final result; - changed files; and - verification evidence. This mode does not require a shorter final answer and does not change reasoning effort. It asks Claude to reduce discretionary narration; it does not guarantee token or cost savings, and no numeric savings should be claimed without matched provider evidence.