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Smart code reading for humans and AI agents. Definitions, callers, dependencies and function-level diffs from tree-sitter. One binary, no index. MCP server + CLI. Install: cargo install tilth or npx tilth

15 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 5 stories, 10 comments · first 2026-02-09 · latest 2026-09-12

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  1. I've gotten good usage out of a structured search tool (not mine, by someone else here) called Tilth: https://github.com/jahala/tilth It combines search with tree sitter grammars so the results can annotate usage vs definitions, cite line…
    comment by hedgehog · 2026-09-12 · in RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
  2. Its on the way! https://github.com/jahala/tilth/pull/151
    comment by jahala · 2026-06-21 · in The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
  3. Would sincerely love to hear your thoughts on https://www.github.com/jahala/tilth - it’s a different approach than RTK, benchmarked to reduce cost per correct answer by ~40%
    comment by jahala · 2026-06-18 · in The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
  4. …competition, but would be happy to put the numbers up if any token whales feel like having a go. https://github.com/jahala/tilth/tree/main/benchmark
    comment by jahala · 2026-06-06 · in Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
  5. Related: https://github.com/jahala/tilth Edit: recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952321
    comment by te0006 · 2026-05-19 · in Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
  6. …range for function definitions, provide file outlines with line numbers on a file name match, etc. https://github.com/jahala/tilth
    comment by hedgehog · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
  7. I built tilth ( https://github.com/jahala/tilth ) much for this reason. Couldn't bother with RAG, but the agents kept using too many tokens - and too many turns - for finding what it needed. So I combined ripgrep and tree-sitter and some…
    comment by jahala · 2026-04-04 · in We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
  8. …code reading for humans and AI agents. Reduces LLM token use and cost by ~40% (benchmarked) https://github.com/jahala/tilth - mrkd: Native macOS .md viewer (+preview in Finder) that imports iTerm2 and VSCode themes…
    comment by jahala · 2026-03-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
  9. …much for the same reasons. Its MIT licence, open source and saves you 30% token use (benchmarked) https://github.com/jahala/tilth
    comment by jahala · 2026-03-06 · in Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster
  10. I implemented this hash (read and edit) approach in tilth if you want to test it out. https://github.com/jahala/tilth its on npm and cargo: - cargo install tilth - npx tilth then tilth install claude-code/windsurf/cursor --edit (--edit…
    comment by jahala · 2026-02-12 · in Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed