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This Claude Code skill sends the theatrics to Gemini
A community-made Claude Code skill uses Gemini CLI to rewrite Claude responses in plainer English, with modes for engineers, managers, and executives.
Claude has a new unofficial antidote to its most recognizable writing habit: turning a simple explanation into a keynote speech about the explanation itself.
A GitHub project called nobuzz adds a Claude Code skill named /debuzz. The project’s GitHub README explains that it sends Claude’s previous response to the Gemini CLI, asks Gemini to translate it into plain English, and prints Gemini’s output without giving Claude a chance to rewrite it.
The repository jokes that Anthropic trained Claude exclusively on old BuzzFeed articles, but the underlying complaint is more specific. The author describes Claude as a strong engineer that tends to explain every issue with phrases such as “load-bearing assumption,” several numbered revelations, and a final “kicker.” The skill is designed to remove that presentation style while preserving the technical substance.
What /debuzz changes
The README’s example starts with a typical Claude-style explanation of a flaky test. It calls retry logic “the load-bearing assumption” of the sync pipeline, presents “three things” that stood out, and describes the final point as “the kicker.”
The rewritten version is much more direct. It identifies three concrete bugs: syncQueue.ts:142 swallows ETIMEDOUT instead of re-queuing the job; the backoff limit is only two seconds, which is too low for mobile networks; and a timestamp in the deduplication key prevents retries from being deduplicated. It then gives three fixes: remove the timestamp, increase the cap to 30 seconds, and re-throw the timeout error.
That distinction matters because /debuzz is not intended to make Claude more accurate or to inspect the code again. It takes the existing response and changes how it is communicated. In its default colleague mode, the skill is instructed to preserve the content, file paths, and code blocks while removing the theatrical language.
Users can select among three audiences:
- colleague: An engineer gets the same content, with file paths and code blocks intact and “zero theatrics.”
- manager: A technical-adjacent manager gets what happened, why it matters, and what comes next, at roughly one-third of the original length and without code.
- director: An executive gets three to five sentences covering the outcome, impact, and ask, assuming about 30 seconds of attention.
The command can be used without a text argument to translate Claude’s previous reply. Users can also paste text after the mode, and the skill recognizes natural-language requests such as “say that in normal English.”
It requires a second model
The implementation is deliberately simple. /debuzz writes Claude’s previous reply to a temporary file, pipes it to Gemini with plain-English style instructions, and prints Gemini’s response verbatim. The author says that allowing Claude to “tidy up” Gemini’s translation would reintroduce the exact voice the tool is meant to remove.
That design also makes the dependency clear: this is not a standalone Claude feature. It requires Claude Code and the Gemini CLI, installed with npm install -g @google/gemini-cli. Gemini must be authenticated by running it once and using /auth, or by setting GEMINI_API_KEY.
The installation consists of cloning the repository, creating Claude’s local skills directory, and copying the debuzz folder into it:
''bash git clone https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -r nobuzz/debuzz ~/.claude/skills ''
If Gemini fails—typically because authentication is missing—the skill exposes the actual error. Claude may provide a fallback rewrite, but the README says it must be clearly labeled. That prevents the tool from quietly asking Claude to debuzz itself, which would undermine the whole experiment.
The repository is released under the MIT license. Its proposed name, “Claudette,” is treated as a joke rather than the project’s official name; the README says the author is avoiding it because Cat Wu is “famously litigious.” The practical release is /debuzz: a small bridge between Claude Code and Gemini CLI for developers who want Claude’s technical answers without the presentation layer.