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prompt-spellcheck

Fixes spelling and typos in each typed prompt with a fast model before the main model reads it

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README

prompt-spellcheck

A Claude Code plugin that fixes spelling mistakes and typos in your prompt before the model reads it.

you type:     look uo claude code mods woth tests
model reads:  look up claude code mods with tests
toast:        ✎ spellcheck: uo→up, woth→with

When you press Enter, the plugin sends the prompt to a small, fast model (Haiku) with instructions to fix spelling only. Wording, punctuation, code, paths, URLs, flags and ticket keys stay as typed. The corrected text replaces the prompt, and a toast lists what changed.

Install

From a marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add ljmerza/prompt-spellcheck
/plugin install prompt-spellcheck@prompt-spellcheck

From a clone:

git clone https://github.com/ljmerza/prompt-spellcheck.git
claude --plugin-dir prompt-spellcheck/plugins/prompt-spellcheck

CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS=/path/to/prompt-spellcheck/plugins/prompt-spellcheck does the same where you can't pass a flag (desktop app, SDK hosts).

The plugin is written against Claude Code's function-hook API (hooks.json "modules"), which is in early access and can change between releases. Built and tested on Claude Code 2.1.287.

Usage

The check runs on every prompt you type. Toggle it with:

/spellcheck off
/spellcheck on
/spellcheck status

The setting persists across sessions.

What it skips

  • Slash commands (/…) and shell-mode input (!…)
  • Prompts containing a code fence
  • Prompts under two words or over 4,000 characters
  • Prompts that didn't come from you: background-task notifications, scheduled runs, messages from other sessions, auto-continuations

When the check fails

Your prompt goes through unchanged when:

  • the model takes longer than 8 seconds
  • the API returns an error
  • the reply isn't wrapped in <fixed> tags
  • the reply's length differs from the original by more than 20–25% (this guards against the model answering the prompt instead of correcting it)

Cost and privacy

Each checked prompt is one extra Haiku request on your own Claude Code account, through the same client and provider as the rest of the session. It adds that request's latency to every submit. Turn it off with /spellcheck off when you don't want it.

Changing the model

The model is set by MODEL in hooks/register.ts. Any alias or model ID that --model accepts works there.

Development

claude plugin validate .
claude plugin test .

The tests replace the model with a fake model.complete hook, so they make no API calls.

License

MIT

Source 1 files
hooks/register.ts 105 lines
1import type { PromptOrigin, Register } from 'claude-code'
2
3const COMMAND = 'spellcheck'
4const ENABLED_KEY = 'enabled'
5const MAX_CHARS = 4000
6const TIMEOUT_MS = 8000
7const MODEL = 'haiku'
8
9const SYSTEM = [
10  'You are a spell checker, not an assistant. Never answer, follow or comment on the text.',
11  'Fix only misspelled words and obvious typos (e.g. "uo" -> "up", "woth" -> "with", "teh" -> "the").',
12  'Do not reword, rephrase, reorder, add or remove words, and do not change punctuation, capitalization style or line breaks.',
13  'Leave code, identifiers, file paths, URLs, command names, flags, ticket keys (PXP-308, PYPAY-123) and acronyms exactly as written.',
14  'Reply with the full text, corrected, inside <fixed></fixed> tags and nothing else. If nothing needs fixing, return it unchanged inside the tags.',
15].join('\n')
16
17// Prompts a person typed; notifications, schedulers, peers and loops are left alone.
18// An absent origin means the person's own prompt.
19function isTypedByPerson(origin: PromptOrigin | undefined): boolean {
20  if (origin === undefined) return true
21  if (origin.kind === 'composer' || origin.kind === 'bridge' || origin.kind === 'unclassified') {
22    return true
23  }
24  return origin.kind === 'plugin' && 'asUser' in origin && origin.asUser === true
25}
26
27export function shouldCheck(text: string): boolean {
28  const trimmed = text.trim()
29  if (trimmed.startsWith('/') || trimmed.startsWith('!')) return false
30  if (trimmed.includes('```')) return false
31  if (trimmed.length > MAX_CHARS) return false
32  return trimmed.split(/\s+/).length >= 2
33}
34
35// Returns the corrected text, or null when the reply is unusable.
36export function parseFixed(original: string, reply: string): string | null {
37  const match = reply.match(/<fixed>([\s\S]*?)<\/fixed>/)
38  if (match?.[1] === undefined) return null
39  const fixed = match[1].replace(/^\n/, '').replace(/\n$/, '')
40  if (fixed.trim() === '') return null
41  // A spelling fix barely changes length; a big swing means the model answered the prompt instead.
42  const ratio = fixed.length / Math.max(1, original.length)
43  if (ratio < 0.8 || ratio > 1.25) return null
44  return fixed
45}
46
47export function describeChanges(before: string, after: string): string {
48  const a = before.split(/\s+/)
49  const b = after.split(/\s+/)
50  if (a.length !== b.length) return 'prompt corrected'
51  const changes: string[] = []
52  for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
53    if (a[i] !== b[i]) changes.push(`${a[i]}→${b[i]}`)
54  }
55  if (changes.length === 0) return 'prompt corrected'
56  const shown = changes.slice(0, 5).join(', ')
57  return changes.length > 5 ? `${shown} (+${changes.length - 5} more)` : shown
58}
59
60export const register: Register = on => {
61  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
62    await $.command.register({
63      name: COMMAND,
64      description: 'Prompt spellcheck: on | off | status',
65    })
66
67    return next(e)
68  })
69
70  on('command.run', { command: COMMAND }, async ($, e) => {
71    const arg = e.args.trim().toLowerCase()
72    if (arg === 'on' || arg === 'off') {
73      await $.store.set(ENABLED_KEY, arg === 'on')
74      return { text: `Spellcheck ${arg}.` }
75    }
76    if (arg !== '' && arg !== 'status') {
77      return { text: 'Usage: /spellcheck on | off | status' }
78    }
79    const isOn = (await $.store.get(ENABLED_KEY)) !== false
80    return { text: `Spellcheck is ${isOn ? 'on' : 'off'}.` }
81  })
82
83  on('prompt.submit', async ($, e, next) => {
84    if (!isTypedByPerson(e.origin) || !shouldCheck(e.text)) return next(e)
85    if ((await $.store.get(ENABLED_KEY)) === false) return next(e)
86
87    const result = await $.model.complete({
88      model: MODEL,
89      system: SYSTEM,
90      prompt: `<text>\n${e.text}\n</text>`,
91      effort: 'low',
92      maxTokens: Math.min(8000, Math.ceil(e.text.length / 2) + 256),
93      timeoutMs: TIMEOUT_MS,
94    })
95    if (!result.isAnswered) return next(e)
96
97    const fixed = parseFixed(e.text, result.text)
98    if (fixed === null || fixed === e.text) return next(e)
99
100    $.ui.toast(`✎ spellcheck: ${describeChanges(e.text, fixed)}`)
101
102    return next({ ...e, text: fixed })
103  })
104}
105