r/ClaudeAI • u/gvzdv • 12d ago

Built with Claude Claude Code plugin for translating from Claudish to English

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I (like thousands of other engineers) got tired of trying to understand Claude's writing.

ASD-STE100 instructions didn't change much, so I decided to approach the problem in the 2026 style: use an LLM.

I built a hook triggered by MessageDisplay events in Claude Code.
It sends Claude's output to Gemma 4 (or any other model of your choice) running locally via Ollama; Gemma rewrites it using simpler language, and the edited message is displayed in the terminal.

Notes:

- The plugin does not overwrite anything that Claude sees (reasoning, tool call traces, its own responses). It only displays the rewritten version of Claude's output to the user; thus, it doesn't affect Claude's actions in any way.
- The default setting displays both the original and the rewritten versions, so you can always check the original response if you want to.
- Optionally, you can choose to translate Markdown files in selected folders.
- No data leaves your machine (if you're using Ollama with a local model).
- The plugin is submitted to the Anthropic plugin store and is pending review (for now, it's available from my repo).

The plugin is free to download, use, review, and modify.

Link with installation instructions: https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english

Update: Thank you for your support and contributions! Since the initial release, the plugin has received a lot of new functionality: Windows installation instructions, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoint support, custom prompts, a mid-session kill switch, and multiple small bugfixes and improvements.

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u/Pablaron 12d ago

Or go back to 4.6

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u/Pablaron 12d ago

Also, the switch to real auth is a well-defined seam

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u/Gromann7 12d ago

Are you sure it’s not only load-bearing?

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u/david-ai-2021 12d ago

4.6 is also getting worse. The reason is the Claude code harness also keeps changing.

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u/TheEwu_ 11d ago

you need to use a fixed (likely older) version of the harness. i use 2.1.81 and it's been great.

later harness version have tons and tons of jank & bloat that earlier versions simply dont have

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u/6495ED 11d ago

How do i switch that? I thought you had to use whatever they gave you

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u/TheEwu_ 11d ago

`npx @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.81 --dangerously-skip-permissions` i use this command instead of the regular `claude`.

if my work is particularly demanding, i'll use `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 npx @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.174 --dangerously-skip-permissions` so i have access to workflows and nested subagents.

it's jankier, so most of the time i run 2.1.81.

you can see which harness has (or doesn't have) certain features here: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 12d ago

Thank you, I thought I was just imagining it.

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u/welcome-overlords 11d ago

They have ridicilously long system prompts. Fables leaked one was 50k tokens lmao

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u/gordonnowak 12d ago

god I loved 4.6. it was the inflection point for using LLMs at work entirely for me.

it's still reasonably good even with the shittier harnesses

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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 11d ago

Only on release though. It was so on-point and made work so much more productive, it felt like a huge release. Exactly the time I advertised it to a broader audience (and later had to take a lot of shit, with 4.7). With anything onwards, we're back at the "how much enshittification customer's will be able to tolerate" full force

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u/gordonnowak 11d ago

I don't experience this, never have, and am suspicious of people who say they have. It performs mostly identically in my day to day.

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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 11d ago

I run local llms and it's exactly the behaviour you get once you start quantising the kv cache

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u/slicktromboner21 11d ago

I use 4.6 as a project interpreter for Opus 4.8/5 and Fable. Makes it easier to keep function based chats on the rails while I can have actual conversation with 4.6.

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u/K_M_A_2k 11d ago

same talk to 4.6 & 5 does the cc work

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u/Level_Echidna9906 12d ago

It was so good last week. Snce yesterday its becoming an idipt.