claudish-to-english Runs a Local 26B Model Purely to Rewrite Claude's Prose Into Plain English Before You Read It

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gvzdv/claudish-to-english appeared 2026-08-10 and took 256 stars overnight. It's a Claude Code plugin using a `MessageDisplay` hook to rewrite assistant responses through a local ollama model as they stream, plus an opt-in `PostToolUse` hook for Markdown files. Defaults: `gemma4:26b-mlx` (~17 GB), ~60 tokens/second, a 200-character minimum before it engages, 45s display timeout, 150s Markdown timeout, and fail-open behavior showing the original text if ollama is unreachable. Display-only — transcripts and the model's own reasoning keep the original text. That someone will spend 17 GB of local VRAM to avoid reading model-flavored prose is a real, quantified data point on how much the house style now costs.