RTK — a token-optimized CLI proxy that wraps common dev commands and strips noise before it ever hits Claude. Across 1,360 commands, here's where the savings landed:
# Command Count Saved Avg% Time
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1 rtk read 51 549.1K 22.6% 0ms
2 rtk:toml ps aux 4 252.7K 98.6% 166ms
3 rtk:toml ps -ef 2 99.5K 98.7% 134ms
4 rtk grep 194 83.3K 35.5% 4ms
5 rtk curl …nordvest… 1 20.0K 99.3% 47ms
6 rtk find 75 19.9K 68.9% 5ms
7 rtk curl … 1 14.7K 99.1% 335ms
8 rtk curl …127… 2 12.7K 98.0% 112ms
9 rtk curl … 2 10.6K 97.6% 130ms
10 rtk git diff resources… 1 10.0K 85.2% 17ms
The big surprise: ps aux and ps -ef cost ~99% of their tokens in noise — a couple of process listings would have eaten 350K tokens uncompressed.
