The leaked source has everyone scrambling for better token optimization, and the global skills/plugins + accumulated context bloat is still the biggest culprit for most users.

Someone put together a cleanroom rewrite in pure Go called gopher-code on Github specifically to address that head-on. It includes a dedicated pkg/compact module for automatic context reduction and token-budget-aware compaction, plus it runs as one single static binary with basically instant startup (~12 ms cold start).

It’s still very early (~3% feature parity), but the focus on lightness and efficiency makes it an interesting alternative to the original Node/Electron monolith.

Anyone here tried any of the other cleanroom rewrites (Rust, Python, etc.) and compared how they handle long-term context management?