rtk v0.46.0 teaches its token-saving proxy to dispatch on find's own grammar rather than pattern-matching the command string

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Released 2026-08-26, rtk (a Rust CLI proxy claiming 60-90% token reduction on common dev commands) now parses find's grammar to compress output for unmodeled predicates, adds a never-worse guard so compression cannot produce a larger result than the original, and emits a tail hint when rtk itself imposes the result cap. A companion git fix stops a value-taking option's argument being misdetected as a patch flag. The never-worse guard and the explicit cap hint are the interesting part: they are the two things that make an output-compressing proxy safe to leave switched on by default.