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Ask HN: Will we start seeing tools for LLM use?

A Hacker News user asks whether the community will develop tools that structure command-line output specifically for LLM consumption, noting that current compression methods save tokens but may increase interaction turns.

read1 min views1 publishedJun 20, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Many projects and addons exists to reduce the verbosity on standard bash / git /npm etc. Commands that agents pass regularly as tools to LLMs. (eg. rtk, headroom, lean-ctx). Tool output compression does yield good token savings. Though it can lead to increased turns - effectively nullifying the per turn token savings. This is the current topology. Are we going to see a class of products and libraries that structure o/p to what models want to see? | ||||||||||| |

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