Kir93

Scrooge Mode — AI skill for Claude Code

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Same answer, fewer tokens — KO-first LLM output-compression skill for Claude Code & Codex.

How to install Scrooge Mode

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Kir93/scrooge-mode and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Scrooge Mode does

Same answer, fewer tokens — KO-first LLM output-compression skill for Claude Code & Codex. A Korean-native caveman alternative, measured on real session output_tokens.

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README

scrooge

tokens are money — spend them like a miser

English · 한국어 · 日本語 · 简体中文

Demo · Install · Surface · Benchmarks · Compared to caveman · Mechanics

Output-compression skill for AI coding agents — same answer, fewer tokens on every reply.

KO-first pentalingual (KO/EN/JA/HI/ZH) output-compression skill for AI coding agents: full on [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), hook + stats on Codex, skill-only on Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Gemini CLI (see [Host support](#host-support)). The Korean register is designed around its own grammar primitives (개조식 · 음슴체 · 존댓말 제거 · 반말 default), **not** translated from English compression rules.

**`~70% KO · ~67% EN · ~65% JA · ~63% HI · ~67% ZH · single-turn chat prose · output-only`** — `claude-opus-4-8`; KO/EN N=21–24 paired median, JA/HI/ZH held-out N=10–11. **Not an agentic-session figure** — agentic work is measured separately (52% total-output savings on a 10-task corpus; the register reaches ~14–30% of billed output in real sessi