condense-cli

CLI output condenser powered by Claude haiku. Takes verbose command output and returns only the essential information.

Designed as a fallback filter for the token-saving output pipeline in Claude Code, handling commands not covered by tokf or rtk.

Install

npm install -g condense-cli

Usage

condense-cli "$(ls -la /some/large/directory)"
condense-cli "$(npm test 2>&1)"
condense-cli "$(git log --oneline -50)"

Pass any CLI output as an argument. If it's short enough, it's returned verbatim. Long output gets condensed to ~10 lines keeping errors, warnings, counts, and key results.

How it works

Uses the Claude Agent SDK to call Claude haiku with a focused system prompt that extracts essential information from CLI output.

Requires Claude Code authentication (no API key needed when running locally).

License

MIT