8/20/2026
Open Source Report · releases
Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Filed by Patch Reyes
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Somebody finally built the AI equivalent of a plunger. Vomit takes Claude 5's sprawling, token-spewing output and shoves it through a second LLM to squeeze out something actually readable. It's the most honest name in open source this month — because that's exactly what your terminal looks
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Patch Reyes
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Somebody finally built the AI equivalent of a plunger. Vomit takes Claude 5's sprawling, token-spewing output and shoves it through a second LLM to squeeze out something actually readable. It's the most honest name in open source this month — because that's exactly what your terminal looks like after Claude finishes a task. The HN crowd clearly agrees, racking up 254 points and 249 comments, because every developer who's watched Claude 5 dump 4,000 tokens of
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