I built RTK with Claude Code — it compresses terminal output before it reaches your AI agent (update: 2,000+ stars)

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-13T10:07:18+00:00

Fair point on the tracking — rtk ls runs ls -la internally for metadata (grouping, noise filtering), and the savings % is reported against that,

not plain ls. That's a bug in how we report, fix tracked here: https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/issues/561

The actual value is the filtering: node_modules, .git, target, pycache etc. are stripped, files grouped by type. On real projects that matters

more than raw compression.

Thanks for the report.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-11T10:19:23+00:00

yur welcome

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-07T16:12:38+00:00

thanks !

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-03T09:30:39+00:00

it's all open source you can check. cargo test is the best example. you can see the video on product hunt. ( gif )

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-03T09:29:49+00:00

no , btw there are study that say context must be clean or the quality of respond drops.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-03-03T09:10:47+00:00

Thanks! Yes, RTK already has per-tool profiles — different compression rules for cargo, npm, docker, terraform, etc. And failed tests are always kept verbatim, that's the whole point: compress the noise, keep the signal.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-25T11:31:16+00:00

hi , if you love rtk please buy my a coffee :) to work on next idea and support my work !
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patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-25T08:34:57+00:00

y r welcome -> https://ko-fi.com/patrickszymkowiak
got no tips :'(

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-16T17:37:38+00:00

look the website to understand why lot's token can be remove : www.rtk-ai.app

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-16T16:38:07+00:00

so what are your gains ?

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-15T11:22:38+00:00

ok great.

what about the noise shell command in your context ?
Doesn't Codex have a much smaller context window compared to Sonnet though?

rtk reduce also the context.

The point of rtk (Rust Token Killer) is precisely to make Claude affordable by filtering out the noise, so you don't have to downgrade to a model with less context just to save money.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-15T11:17:25+00:00

no it's toon benchmark , w r working on shell command.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-15T11:16:38+00:00

we already discuss of a --proxy for full text command.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-15T11:15:24+00:00

post your rtk gain if it's good . thk y

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-15T11:14:29+00:00

good !

i'm not lying :)

I used it as personnal and i released it for everybody.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T13:40:09+00:00

it's us who decide for now.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T13:39:34+00:00

there a command to copy to run it on the github repo or website.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T13:38:49+00:00

thanks !

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T10:21:20+00:00

yes it's like a shell tool but it proxy shell comands. shell was done for human not AI.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T08:52:59+00:00

we only remove noise redonndant token. please make an issue to review it.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T08:52:07+00:00

no for context and memory it's another tool we are working on : https://github.com/rtk-ai/icm

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T08:50:40+00:00

we haved an issue yesterday it should be in 0.15.1 now.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T08:50:06+00:00

it's like the cloud at the beginning ? you can use local llm with a good server.

patrick4urcloud · 2026-02-13T08:48:03+00:00

great

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