rdxmin

🧨 RDXmin

Your AI talks less, builds less, reads less — and says more. Like a senior dev who bills by the syllable.

Half the output bill on 20 measured tasks · compresses what the model writes AND reads · one command

rdx.jaypokale.me — the site version of this README, with fewer words

You asked your AI agent to "add a cache." A bare agent answered with a 150-line cache class — config object, TTL logic, stats counters, the works. RDXmin's answer to the same prompt: 7 lines. Same model, same question, measured, receipts committed in benchmarks/.

Most efficiency tools compress one thing. RDXmin compresses three:

Every "be concise" tool has a worst day — the day it makes the model write more than no tool at all. Across 20 measured tasks over two suites, the specialists had that day 6 and 8 times, blowing up to 424% of the baseline. RDXmin had it once, capped at 173% — and that one failure was root-caused, fixed in the ruleset, and re-validated live at 93%, with the whole investigation committed to the repo. Think of it as downside insurance for your token bill: not always the single cheapest answer, always the smallest worst case — from the only tool in this class that publishes its own failures. Why not caveman or ponytail? →

Install

One command. Auto-detects your agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Kiro, Codex, Gemini, Copilot) and wires each one. --uninstall puts everything back.

npx rdxmin

# or via curl
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayPokale/RDXmin/main/install.sh | bash

# Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayPokale/RDXmin/main/install.ps1 | iex

Preview first with npx rdxmin --dry-run, scope with --only claude, see everything with npx rdxmin --help. Remove with npx rdxmin --uninstall.

Requirements: Node ≥18 (installer / npx) · Claude Code for live /rdx switching, the statusline badge, and input-side compression — the always-on ruleset still ships to every other agent · bash for the statusline (macOS/Linux; a PowerShell version ships for Windows).

Claude Code plugin (marketplace)

claude plugin marketplace add JayPokale/RDXmin   # register the marketplace
claude plugin install rdxmin@rdxmin              # enable the plugin

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "bash \"/path/to/rdxmin/hooks/rdx-statusline.sh\""
  }
}

Numbers

Nothing here is estimated. Every figure below is recomputed from committed raw data; the 2026-07-07 verification writeup re-derived the old claims from scratch, re-ran the whole suite against the competitors' installed plugins, and retired the one claim that didn't survive.

Output axis — vs caveman & ponytail, 20 live tasks

59+ live model runs across two suites (June 4-arm matrix on Haiku + Sonnet sweep; July re-verification run). Arms differ only in the injected system prompt. Billed output tokens vs the no-tool baseline: