How We Achieved a 12.2x Token Reduction on Codebase Context

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Dumping 150,000 tokens into an AI prompt every time an agent runs is expensive and sloppy.

We benchmarked TokenCap on full-repo tasks and brought payload size from 152,000 tokens down to 12,450 tokens. That is a 12.2x reduction.

How it works:
Instead of sending raw text, TokenCap parses the code into an AST graph using local tree-sitter WASM grammars. It scores every function and file based on real call-graph proximity and gates the output against a hard token budget.

Run it locally in one command:

npx tokencap make

No API keys. Zero cloud dependencies. Your code never leaves your terminal.

Check the technical documentation and benchmarks at tokencap.vansharora.app

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