Vomit Claude Token Cleanup: Fix Verbose Output with a Separate LLM
Claude’s verbose output — long caveat lists, hedging, verification dumps, and “token vomit” — wastes paid tokens and human reading time every time you copy a reply into a PR, doc, or commit. Vomit fixes this by piping Claude’s message through a separate, local LLM that rewrites it into concise prose before it ever reaches your screen. The cleanup pass runs on your own machine for zero hosted-token cost, and measured over 100 agent iterations it cut downstream token waste by roughly 20%. This guide shows you the root cause, how to set up Vomit, and why separating the reasoning model from the style model is a pattern worth stealing. ...