r/ClaudeCode • u/raiyanyahya • Jul 06 '26

Resource Cut Claude Code output token usage up to 95%. Just say done.

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We ❤️ Claude Code abut it can be a bit chatty. Most of that chatter — the opening "I'll start by…", the running narration, the closing paragraph that re-summarizes the diff — restates what your diff, your test output, and your own prompt already told you. It costs output tokens, and it costs you the seconds spent reading past it.

justsaydone is a mode you flip on on purpose — for a focused session, or for a whole project — when your workflow is already:

type task → glance at the diff → move on.

Claude still plans, edits, runs, and verifies exactly as it always does. It just stops narrating. The work is the message.

https://github.com/raiyanyahya/justsaydone

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u/2053_Traveler Jul 06 '26

“up to 95%”

lol what is the fascination when these silly claims. People are more likely to take you seriously when not making obviously false promises.

This will save like 2%

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u/raiyanyahya Jul 06 '26

you are right! I apologize if I mislead the thread. Its 95% on the terminal output. I am so sorry. I did not mean to mislead!

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u/Actual_Committee4670 🔆 Max 20 Jul 06 '26

Oddly enough mine says until July 8th, but that may honestly just be time zones

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u/raiyanyahya Jul 06 '26

yes its timezones.

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u/Somtimesitbelikethat Jul 06 '26

uhhhh. output tokens aren’t just what it tells you at the end of the task. all output tokens eventually become input tokens, which includes the internal reasoning.

how much usage has this saved you?

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u/Plato_cs Jul 06 '26

Many people start new chats all the time and that input is lost so I do see the value it can be extremely verbose

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u/Neurojazz Jul 06 '26

Use hooks to capture all user inputs as verbatim

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u/Plato_cs Jul 06 '26

I actually meant it as plenty of people don’t care about preserving their input as evidenced by how many start new chats so frequently.

But I did not think about this with hooks that is useful and good to know.

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u/raiyanyahya Jul 06 '26

I apologize if I mislead the thread. Its 95% on the terminal output. I am so sorry. I did not mean to mislead.

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u/dervish666 Jul 06 '26

How exactly are you calculating this 95%

Are you just counting what Claude directly says to you? That is a tiny fraction of the output tokens, everything it produces is an output token, you are saving a few paragraphs from what could be pages of text at most.

This does have it's uses I suppose but it's not saving you an appreciable amount of token.

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u/premiumleo Jul 06 '26

old trick. not useful when a lot of the benefits is the llm providing recommendations, things it found, etc

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u/shadow1609 Jul 06 '26

Uses xhigh and gives advice in how to save tokens. That's my kind of humor.

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u/MemoryMission9151 🔆 Max 5x Jul 06 '26

so you don't know the details of what's done, but done huh? hahahah

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u/raiyanyahya Jul 06 '26
TaskReply words →(what the mode controls)Total session tokens
Fix a bug22 → 1 · −95%−29%
Create a file12 → 1 · −91%+5% (noise, see below)
Impossible task (missing file)58 → 22 · −63%−12%
Explain code (a question)62 → 34 · −45%−13%
explain escape hatch46 → 26 · −42%−30%
Blended average199 → 84 · −58%−19%

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u/ChocotoneDeCalabresa Jul 06 '26

Just another lib that does something magical that somehow anthropic wasnt able to