rtk

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What it does

An editorial selection.

Single Rust binary that intercepts shell commands and compresses their output before it reaches the LLM. Supports 100+ commands.

Why it is listed

The README claims a 60–90% token cut on common dev commands with under 10 ms overhead. Works with any agent.

GitHub describes it as: CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 84,785
Forks: 5,385
Open issues: 902
Merged PRs: 765
Commits, last 30 days: 352
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Rust
Licence: Apache-2.0
Created: 22 Jan 2026
Last push: 26 Oct 2026
Latest release: v1.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026
Category: Context, Memory & Cost
Topics: agentic-coding ai-coding anthropic claude-code cli command-line-tool cost-reduction developer-tools llm open-source
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

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Development context

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Total commits on default branch: 2,537
Open pull requests: 708
Closed issues, lifetime: 1,007
Median time to close an issue: 25.5 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 14.0 days

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