rtk tool: CLI proxy cuts LLM token consumption on dev commands by 90%
4310sy · x · 2026-08-30
The author introduces 'rtk', a CLI proxy tool designed to significantly reduce token consumption for tools like Claude Code. With 77.9k stars on GitHub, rtk filters and compresses command outputs before the agent reads them, claiming to cut token usage on common dev commands by 60-90%. It is a single Rust binary with zero dependencies.
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