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RTK: A High-Performance Rust CLI Proxy That Slashes AI Agent Token Costs
Eliminating Terminal Bloat: Meet RTK (Rust Token Killer)
As developers increasingly delegate terminal tasks, testing, and debugging to AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenHands), context window saturation has become a major engineering bottleneck. Standard developer tools—such as git diff , test runners, and package managers—were designed for human terminal readability, often generating verbose logs filled with progress indicators, decorative ASCII headers, ...


