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Tools2026-08-11 · source-backed
Top Show HN slot at 54 points: an MCP CLI client that connects to any stdio or HTTP server and emits Token-Optimized Object Notation instead of JSON schema, claiming 97% fewer tokens on tool discovery and 40–60% on results. The premise is that MCP overhead runs 40,000–70,000 tokens before any reasoning happens, eating 30–55% of a 128K window. Zero-dependency pure Python, ~50KB, Apache 2.0. The savings figures are the author's own and unverified by anyone else, so measure before you believe.
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Triple-stream retrieval (BM25 keyword, vector embeddings, knowledge-graph traversal) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion on the iii engine, with SQLite for state and an in-memory vector index, no external database. The economic claim: ~170K tokens/year (~$10) versus ~650K tokens...
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