TIL : A single command saves 90% of my tokens

rtk find — a proxy that filters find output before it hits the agent’s context. Across 908 tracked commands, this single command saved 5.6M tokens out of 6.2M total (90.3%).

The problem: find in a project returns massive file trees (node_modules, vendor, .git). The agent ingests them entirely. RTK intercepts the command and filters irrelevant paths before they reach the context.

RTK Token Savings
  rtk find    76 invocations   5.6M tokens saved   70.4% efficiency
  rtk ls     159 invocations    27K tokens saved   59.6% efficiency
  rtk read   115 invocations    15K tokens saved   13.0% efficiency

The insight: in an agentic workflow, the most cost-effective optimization isn’t switching models — it’s preventing noise from entering the context. A single well-placed filter does more than any multi-model routing setup.