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title: "Stop Claude from overengineering with a prompt"
description: "Concise prompt to stop overengineering"
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[Ian Nuttall](https://ian.is/)

# Stop Claude from overengineering with a prompt

August 4, 2025

It's amazing how effective this one sentence prompt is to stop Claude from overengineering or refactoring your codebase

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