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GitHub - zachahn/vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM. Save your tokens, Claude 5 is hopeless

▲ 302 points 297 comments by Bluestein 3d ago HN discussion ↗

Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe that this entire text is human-written.

0 %

AI likelihood · overall

Human
100% human-written 0% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 1
SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 1
WORD COUNT 227
PEAK AI % 0% · §1
Analyzed
Aug 21
backend: pangram/v3.3
Segments scanned
1 windows
avg 227 words each
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100 / 0%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
Human
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 227 words · 1 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 0%

Vomit converts Claude's token vomit into English by piping it through a local LLM. It's fully local (no telemetry) and has no external dependencies. I wrote a small blog post about this project: https://zachahn.com/posts/1787191554 Disclaimer: The local LLM can only see what Claude tries to communicate (no access to any actions or files), so it hallucinates a bit It's pretty slow This is totally vibe-coded, only tested on Mac There is a possibility you'll completely miss Claude's message. You can use something like AgentsView to get the original messages, as Vomit does not touch anything during runtime (except technically it writes files to your TMPDIR) Install # Install the binary to your GOPATH go install github.com/zachahn/vomit@latest # Setup connection details to your LLM vomit init # Instructions on how to replace Claude's output via hooks vomit scrub -claude Usage In addition, there's a non-invasive mode if you want to run Vomit on the side. vomit list. List Claude session identifiers vomit tail [<session_identifier>]. Translate Claude's tokens for the specified session, or follow the latest one vomit help. See for more commands This should work with: Llama.app Ollama Anything that uses the OpenAI API? If you don't have a local LLM set up already, I think I recommend using Llama.app, then downloading GPT-OSS 20B through it. Run the init subcommand after you set this up. License GNU GPLv3