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# 🦴 paleo

> Token-saving skills for LLM agents — cut output & context tokens without choking the model.

[Why](#why-paleo) · [See it](#see-it-before--after) · [Features](#features) · [Skills](#skills) · [Combos](#recommended-combos) · [Quick Start](#quick-start) · [Benchmarks](#benchmarks) · [Comparison](#comparison) · [Tips](#tips--triggers) · [Install](#installation)

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## Why paleo?

- **Tokens cost money and latency.** Every trimmed token means faster, cheaper inference. - **One-size-fits-all prompting fails.** Sometimes you want terse output, sometimes a hard budget, sometimes just no fluff. paleo gives each as a separate, well-scoped skill. - **Skills stay minimal.** Every `SKILL.md` is written terse on purpose — loading one costs less context than a long prompt.

## See it (Before / After)

paleo compresses *delivery*, not meaning. Code, commands, and technical terms stay byte-exact.

| Normal agent | 🦴 paleo | |---|---| | "The re-render happens because you create a new object literal on every render. That inline object is a fresh reference each time, so React sees a changed prop and re-renders. Wrap it in `useMemo` to keep a stable reference." | "New object each render → new r