Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze
Hey HN! I've been building Claurst - a clean-room implementation of Claude Code in Rust, with extra features to make my ideal agentic Open-Source AI CLI. It's WIP and rough, but I'm shipping a lot to make it amaze amaze amaze. Inspired by this HN post [1] I saw a few hours ago about caveman speak for token-efficient output, I added /Caveman and /Rocky (from project Hail Mary) to Claurst. Caveman grammar drops ~70% of output tokens keeping technical substance and Rocky brings a close compression with more personality. Both are first-class slash commands with three levels: lite,…
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Hey HN! I've been building Claurst - a clean-room implementation of Claude Code in Rust, with extra features to make my ideal agentic Open-Source AI CLI. It's WIP and rough, but I'm shipping a lot to make it amaze amaze amaze. Inspired by this HN post [1] I saw a few hours ago about caveman speak for token-efficient output, I added /Caveman and /Rocky (from project Hail Mary) to Claurst. Caveman grammar drops ~70% of output tokens keeping technical substance and Rocky brings a close compression with more personality. Both are first-class slash commands with three levels: lite, full, ultra. It's fun, makes you happy and saves tokens :D Would love for you to try it out and get feedback! [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455
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