Technology
Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM
Key Points
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. Disclaimer: - The local LLM can only see what Claude tries to communicate (no access to any actions or files), so it hallucinates a bit -
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.
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 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
In addition, there's a non-invasive mode if you want to run Vomit on the side.
vomit list
. List Claude session identifiersvomit tail []
. Translate Claude's tokens for the specified session, or follow the latest onevomit help
. See for more commands
This should work with:
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.
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