Is Chisle still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v3.12.1, today.

How widely used is Chisle?

Some track record. 1.1k stars, 5 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

How to install on Windows

JayPokale/Chisle

Cut your AI coding agent's token bill on three axes: terse prose, YAGNI-first code, and tool-output compression. Claude Code, Pi, Cursor, Codex, Gemini + 4 more. Zero deps, published benchmarks including the runs it loses.

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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v3.12.1, today.
How widely used?: Some track record1.1k stars, 5 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 1,065
Activity: Updated this month

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Will it work on Windows?

Yes, it installs on your Windows

The README gives an install script for Windows.

Your system

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Start here

Website ↗chisle.jaypokale.meThe project's own site.

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install script

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Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js >=18runtime
1×npm package manager

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Good to know

Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: benchmarks/agentic/fixtures/dupepaths/repo/package.json, benchmarks/agentic/fixtures/noisylog/repo/package.json, benchmarks/agentic/fixtures/reuse/repo/package.json, benchmarks/agentic/fixtures/rootcause/repo/package.json and 5 more

Details

License: MIT
Open issues: 0
Branch: main

package.json scripts (8)

testnode --test tests/*.js
build:rulesnode scripts/build-rules.js
check:rulesnode scripts/build-rules.js --check
build:chartnode scripts/build-chart.js
check:chartnode scripts/build-chart.js --check
benchbash benchmarks/run-live.sh
build:samplesnode scripts/build-samples.js
check:samplesnode scripts/build-samples.js --check

Files we read (5)

.github/workflows/publish.yml

.github/workflows/test.yml

INSTALL.md

README.md

package.json

1,225 files in the repo

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