# Claudish-to-English plugin

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Claudish-to-English plugin and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend this free plugin for translating Claude's stylized output into plain English and as a base for their own prompts or hooks.

## Why people recommend it

- Good base for own prompts (3 comments): "Check out the awesome Claudish-to-English plugin, you could lift their prompt from" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395413)) "I ended up using claudish-to-english with a prompt derived from the vomit one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396731)) "a much better starting point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692956))
- Wanted as built-in default (2 comments): "This will be very useful for me, but I wish it could be built natively into the agent harness." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691651)) "Wtf, why isn't this the default?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300225))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Caveman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/caveman.md): 59 recommend
- [Compound Engineering plugin by Every](https://hackerapproved.com/p/compound-engineering-plugin.md): 9 recommend
- [pi-subagents](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pi-subagents.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claudish-to-English plugin", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claudish-to-english/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).