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Claude’s output has become so bad people are wrapping a second model around it

The part that caught my eye is not the repo itself, but the attitude behind it: this is a tool built to rescue Claude’s output by running another LLM over it, and the README says the quiet part out loud with “Claude 5 is hopeless.” That’s funny, but it also reads like genuine frustration. If you’re willing to pay for one model so it can clean up after another model, something in the original interaction is already broken enough that the workaround starts to feel like product criticism, not just hacker humor.

What I find most interesting is the explicit admission that the local model only sees the text Claude emits, not the actions or files. That means this is not a real parser for agent behavior; it’s a best-effort translator for whatever sludge makes it back into the transcript. The author says it will hallucinate a bit, and I believe that. In fact, I’d expect the failure modes to be worse than “a bit” whenever Claude’s stream is truncated, garbled, or heavily dependent on hidden tool context. So the tool is honest about its limits, which I respect, but it also tells you how shaky the premise is.

Still, I can see why someone would try it. Claude Code-style workflows already make you tolerant of rough edges if the model is productive enough. A sidecar translator that runs locally, touches no external services, and can be slotted in through hooks is a very developer-shaped fix. It’s the kind of thing you build when you’d rather salvage a messy agent transcript than wait for the upstream model to become more legible.

The “I recommend using Llama.app, then downloading GPT-OSS 20B” part is where I start to squint a little. Maybe that’s a sensible setup for this exact use case, but it also sounds like one person’s working recipe rather than something broadly validated. The README is refreshingly unpolished, though. “Vibe-coded, only tested on Mac” is not a confidence builder, but at least it’s an accurate warning label.

What this repo really says to me is that agent UX is still fragile enough that people are inventing post-processing layers for the model’s own outputs. That’s a weird state of affairs, and also a very real one.

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

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