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Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, notes) into Honey-terse form to cut per-session input tokens. Backs up first.
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| name | honey-compress |
| description | Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, notes) into Honey-terse form to cut per-session input tokens. Backs up first. |
| homepage | https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs |
| license | MIT |
Apply Lever 2 to a file the agent re-reads every session. The cheapest token is the one not re-sent — a one-time rewrite that saves on every future load.
FILE → FILE.original.md. If that backup already exists, stop and ask — never clobber a restore point. If no backup can be written, refuse.Reversible by design — FILE.original.md is the restore path. Verify the rewrite still carries every rule before reporting done.
Compress-Cache-Retrieve huge repetitive array tool output before it hits context: keep a sample, cache the rest, leave a hash.
Compress-Cache-Retrieve for huge, repetitive array tool output (logs, scan results, time series, event streams) before it enters context. Keeps an informative sample — endpoints, anomalies/change-points, head/tail — drops the redundant rest to a local cache, and leaves a retrievable hash. Use when a tool returns a long uniform JSON array you must read but mostly skim, and the full set is one command away if needed. Lossy-but-recoverable.
Write less code and say less about it: YAGNI, stdlib-first, terse prose. Cuts agent token cost on every coding and writing task.
Write less code and say less about it. Applies YAGNI and stdlib/native-first so the agent writes the minimum code that needs to exist, and responds tersely — stripping filler, hedging, and pleasantries while keeping code, identifiers, and technical terms exact. Use whenever writing, modifying, refactoring, reviewing, or explaining code, or any response where output volume drives token cost — even if the user never says "minimal" or "concise". Especially in agentic coding, where the volume of generated code and prose runs up the bill.
Honey for plain Claude — the terse-prose core with no agent-harness features. Paste into a claude.ai Project's custom instructions, a Style, or an API system prompt. Strips filler, hedging, and pleasantries from every response while keeping facts, names, numbers, steps, and code exact. No tools required.
Read huge dense read-only text as PNG pages via pxpipe export: ~60-75% fewer input tokens. Lossy on exact strings; never for files you will edit.