rtk-ai / rtk
CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
Why this job: topics: ai-coding, agentic-coding, claude-code
What it does
One composable pipeline across everything your AI agent reads and sends — built on RTK's battle-tested bash-output compression (up to 90% smaller).
Get started
brew install rtk
# macOS / Linux
winget install rtk-ai.rtk
# Windows
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/refs/heads/master/install.sh | sh - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 2 days ago
- Stars
- 86,025
- On GitHub
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 3 systems
- Mac, Windows, Linux
- Latest version
- v1.2.0
- Released 2 days ago
- Built with
- Rust
- 97% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 12
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 54% closed
- 916 still open
- Pull requests
- 816 merged
- 742 waiting
- Releases
- 475
- 30+ in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v1.2.0
- Mac6 files, 5,441 downloads
- Windows3 files, 4,557 downloads
- Linux25 files, 7,441 downloads
Languages
- Rust 97%
- Shell 2%
- TypeScript 1%
- Python <1%
Topics
- agentic-coding
- ai-coding
- anthropic
- claude-code
- cli
- command-line-tool
- cost-reduction
- developer-tools
- llm
- open-source
- productivity
- rust
Project record
- JobCoding agents
- StatusNew to our list
- Commits2,735
- Forks5,510
- Watching215
- CreatedJan 22, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 10, 2026