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,…
Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze launched on April 6, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,846 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Claurst is an open-source, multi-provider terminal coding agent built from the ground up in Rust. It started as a clean-room reimplementation of Claude Code's behavior (from spec ) and has since evolved into an amazing TUI pair programmer with multi-provider support, a rich UI, plugin system, a companion named Rustle, chat forking, memory consolidation, and much more. It's fast, it's memory-efficient, it's yours to run however you want, and there's no tracking or telemetry. Claurst is now officially in Beta (v0.1.7). The core agent, multi-provider routing, and TUI are stable enough for daily driving — expect rough edges around experimental features (flagged below). Bug reports and PRs…from github.com
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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…
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