claudish-to-english is a Claude Code plugin that rewrites assistant messages into plain English for display, using a local or remote language model while preserving the original response and transcript. It is used by people who want easier-to-read Claude Code output, with an optional hook for simplifying Markdown files. The catalogue entries are the plugin's hooks, instruction, skill, command, and packaging.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gvzdv/claudish-to-english. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-englishWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01615 | $0.01615 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00646 | $0.00646 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00323 | $0.00323 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00161 | $0.00161 |
Grade A, and why
claudish-to-english CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 28d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Plain bash + `jq` + `curl`. No build, no test suite, no dependencies to install. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
claudish-to-english
A Claude Code plugin: a MessageDisplay hook shows a plain-language rewrite of
each assistant message, produced by a local or remote LLM. Display-only —
Claude's reasoning and the saved transcript always keep the original text.
Plain bash + jq + curl. No build, no test suite, no dependencies to install.
CONTRIBUTING.md is the full version of this file; it is the source of truth if
the two ever disagree.
Layout
| File | Role |
|---|---|
rewrite.sh |
MessageDisplay hook — the main event. Buffers streamed chunks, rewrites on the final one |
rewrite-md.sh |
PostToolUse hook — rewrites Markdown files (opt-in, off by default) |
claudish-md.sh |
on-demand CLI — rewrites a file or stdin; backs /claudish file. Not a hook: fails loudly |
md-core.sh |
Markdown frontmatter split + system prompt, shared by rewrite-md.sh and claudish-md.sh |
claudish-ctl.sh |
backs /claudish; writes the ~/.claude/claudish-* flag files, prints the dashboard |
session-notice.sh |
SessionStart hook — warns that flag files from an earlier session are still active |
providers.sh |
provider layer (ollama / anthropic / openai / codex). Sourced by both hooks and the CLI |
lang.sh |
output-language resolver + the sanitiser for untrusted config values. Sourced by both hooks and the CLI |
commands/claudish.md |
the /claudish slash command |
hooks/hooks.json |
wires the three hooks |
Config precedence is consistent throughout: flag file > env var > settings file > built-in default. Flag files exist because env vars are frozen at session launch and cannot be changed mid-session.
Non-negotiable: hooks fail open
On any problem — provider down, timeout, no jq, malformed payload, missing
file — a hook emits nothing and exits 0, leaving Claude's original text on
screen. This outranks every other consideration. Never add a code path where a
failure can swallow or corrupt an assistant message.
The one exception is claudish-md.sh, which is a command a person runs, not a
hook: it reports failures (claudish-md: <reason>, non-zero exit) instead of
staying silent. It still never prints or writes a partial or empty rewrite.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 28d ago Changed · +9 lines · +194 tokens per session ffe333ff6436
- 2mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 1,421 tokens per session scan A 5a0e287afa62
claudish-to-english CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gvzdv/claudish-to-english (2,757 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,615 tokens to every session, about $0.0065 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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