Tokenade documentation

Tokenade cuts the token bill of AI coding agents: one install, zero config, and it trims what your agent sends to the model.

Tokenade is a local command-line tool that sits between your AI coding agent and its tools, and trims what the agent would otherwise send to the model: long command output, whole files, web pages, verbose MCP results. It plugs into each agent through that agent's own hooks, plugins or MCP configuration, so you keep working exactly as before. Everything is folded on your machine, and anything folded can be recovered byte for byte.

Quickstart

You need Node.js 18 or later and a free tokenade.net account (no card required).

• npm install -g @tokenade/cli downloads the prebuilt binary for your platform. See Install Tokenade.
• tokenade install detects the coding agents on your machine and wires Tokenade into each one.
• tokenade login opens tokenade.net in your browser so you can approve this machine. See Log in and activate a machine.

Then start a session in your agent and check that it works: your first session.

Documentation map

Getting started

• Install Tokenade: npm package, supported platforms, install flags.
• Log in and activate a machine: browser device flow, license file, machines.
• Check it works: your first session: healthcheck, hooks, gain.

Agents

• Supported agents and compatibility: what each agent gets.
• Claude Code (CLI and desktop)
• Codex (CLI and app)
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• Antigravity (Gemini CLI is no longer supported since 1.1.19)
• OpenCode and Kilo Code
• Other agents: Cline, Hermes, Pi, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, Grok, Droid, Aider, T3 Code, Devin Desktop.

How it works

• How hooks intercept tool calls
• Output compaction and the stash
• How savings are measured
• Dead-end memory (mistakes)

Commands

• map, skeleton, query, impact, semantic
• Read documents and media
• web and search
• Run scripts with execute
• wrap, raw and filter
• Get folded output back
• gain, dashboard and receipt
• Wrap MCP servers
• The LLM proxy
• style and statusline
• Maintenance commands

Configuration

• Environment variables
• Custom compactors and filters
• Files and paths

Privacy and data

• What Tokenade sends and stores

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting
• Upgrade and uninstall
• Changelog

Getting help

Run tokenade help for the live command list and tokenade <command> --help for the flags of one command. If something looks wrong, start with tokenade healthcheck: it checks the install and names the fix when a check fails. Plans and limits are on the pricing page.