claudish-to-english plugin (plain-English rewrite of agent output)

What it does. A Claude Code plugin (hooks, not a SKILL.md) that shows a plain-English rewrite of each assistant message, produced by a local model through ollama by default, or the Codex CLI, the Anthropic API, or any OpenAI-compatible API. It is display-only: Claude's own reasoning and the saved transcript keep the original text. An optional second hook rewrites Markdown files into plain language when they are written. Every hook fails open, so if the rewriter is down you see the original. Use it when an operator finds the agent's jargon ("Claudish") hard to read; for changing what the agent actually writes, use asd-ste100 skill (Simplified Technical English) or govuk-style skill (GOV.UK plain-English house style) instead.

Install

• /plugin marketplace add gvzdv/claudish-to-english then install the plugin. With the default provider you need ollama running with a pulled model (the README suggests gemma4:26b-mlx), plus jq and curl; with CLAUDISH_PROVIDER=anthropic or openai you need only jq, curl, and an API key.
• Set CLAUDISH_NOTICE=0 to silence the once-per-session skip notice.

What the skill instructs (summary)

• This is a hook-based plugin; there is no instruction file to reproduce. hooks/hooks.json registers a display hook (rewrite.sh) and an opt-in Markdown hook (rewrite-md.sh).
• providers.sh selects ollama (default), codex, anthropic, or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint; lang.sh keeps the rewrite in the session's language.
• commands/claudish.md adds a /claudish slash command to toggle and configure the rewrite.
• The repo's own .claude/skills/release/SKILL.md is a maintainer release-checklist skill, unrelated to the tool's function.

Not reproduced: license not permissive or not found. Read the original at gvzdv/claudish-to-english.

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