Stop Junk Text Burning Your Claude Limit: The Free Repo That Shrinks What Claude Reads
Every command Claude runs sends back pages of output, and all of it counts toward your limit. The free repo past 85,000 stars that cuts that output by up to 90%, the two commands that set it up, and what it doesn't cover
Each time Claude Code runs a command, the full output lands in the conversation. A test run, a git diff or a file list can be pages long, and Claude reads every line.
RTK sits between Claude and those commands and hands back a short version. Here's what it cuts, how to set it up, and the honest limits.
What it cuts
| Command | What Claude gets back |
|---|---|
| Test runs (npm test, pytest, cargo test) | Failures only, passing tests collapsed to a count |
| git status | A compact summary grouped by state |
| git diff | Reduced context, headers stripped |
| git log | Hash, author and subject only |
| ls / tree | A tree with file counts, not one line per entry |
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