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zachahn/vomit

Clean up Claude's token vomit with a separate LLM. Save your tokens, Opus is hopeless

▲ 1 hacker recommends Go ★ 202 GPL-3.0 aiai-toolsclaude-code

Recommended between 2026-08-22 and 2026-08-22. Last pushed 2026-09-09.

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“I haven't tried with Claudette but did evaluate https://github.com/zachahn/vomit and https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english earlier today.”

— amumu, 2026-08-22 · original comment on Hacker News ↗

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I haven't tried with Claudette but did evaluate https://github.com/zachahn/vomit and https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english earlier today. I ended up using claudish-to-english with a prompt derived from the vomit one and some of my existing instructions. I ran a few local models through a test harness to see how they did, and the gemma4 ones added bad behavior back in less than any others I tested. So for the parent's Macbook question `gemma4-26b-mlx` should work well. For you with 24 GB VRAM, `gemma4-26b-a4b`. I tried higher VRAM models and they slowed down while still doing just as well or slightly worse. If someone else tests and finds a better performing model though, please upd…

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