Laconic – Compress what a coding agent carries, not what it says.
Status: early package release.
laconic0.2.0 ships the handle ledger and the file observation encoder — the largest single lever, replacing whole-file reads with a structural outline plus the requested span. Command, search, and action encoding are not yet implemented.
Most of what fills a coding agent's context window is never read by a human — file contents, command output, patches, search hits — and it is re-ingested on every turn of a session. Laconic is a codec for that traffic: it re-encodes observations and actions at the tool boundary, keeps every elision recoverable, and renders prose for a human only on demand.
Install
uv tool install laconic
laconic --help
Documentation
| Document | What's in it |
|---|---|
docs/pitch.md |
The short version: the problem, the measurement, what is and isn't claimed |
docs/overview.md |
What Laconic is, why, the evidence, prior work, and the pre-registered gates |
docs/system-design.md |
Architecture, components, data model, and the evaluation harness |
Measurement
One tool is runnable today. It decomposes real agent session transcripts into observations, actions, prose, and prompts, weighted by model pricing — the analysis the design is built on:
python3 scripts/measure_session_composition.py
Run it against your own sessions before taking any number in docs/ on faith.
License
Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE.
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Metadata
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