rtk-ai/rtk

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CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

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Forks: 5.1k
Open beginner issues: 16
Indexed issues: 824
Avg merge: 4d 21h
Merged PRs (30d): 35

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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824 open issues indexed

Windows: a non-UTF-8 argument bypasses MSYS/Cygwin quoting via to_str() == None Open

area:cli bug help wanted platform:windows priority:low

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4116 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
rtk grep: invalid UTF-8 in a searched file corrupts file-count/attribution for other matches in the same file (exit 0, no warning) Open

area:security bug help wanted priority:high

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4113 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Prioritize high-frequency unhandled commands: gofmt, cat, go run, and node Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4112 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
rtk read: add a line-range option so sed -n range reads stop escaping the filter Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4111 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Windows: MSYS/Cygwin children also lose apostrophes and glob metacharacters, not just double quotes (sequel to #3727) Open

area:cli bug help wanted platform:windows priority:high

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4102 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Windows: `rtk tree` still corrupts arguments containing a quote — last unconverted sibling after #3728 Open

area:cli bug good first issue platform:windows priority:medium resolved-pending-close

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4101 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
bug(discover): a tab between command and subcommand classifies as Supported but never rewrites Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:low

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4100 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
rewrite: declines env-wrapped (env -u) and sudo-prefixed commands Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4099 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
output capped at N results: elided lines are unrecoverable and the hint has no recovery path Open

area:cli bug help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4098 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add Devin CLI integration (PreToolUse hook via .devin/hooks.v1.json) Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4097 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
rtk wc does not read stdin — silent false zero on redirect and pipe Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4091 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Prek support Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:low

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4088 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
rtk find: 9.4% reduction on ~19.6k tok/call — path lists need common-prefix folding Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4086 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
rtk curl drops the request body passed on stdin (-d @-) Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:high

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4084 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Live hook (rtk hook claude) hangs/mangles path on unrecognized commands (e.g. graphify) Open

area:cli bug platform:windows priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4080 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Independent audit of v0.48.0 truncation: 4 historical failure classes fixed, JSON enum truncation remains (repro + data) Open

area:security bug needs-info priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4073 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
PreToolUse rewrite misses find ... | wc -l and never maps standalone head -n <file> to rtk read Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4072 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
pytest filter drops the duration line, so a 3-second run and a 10-minute run look identical Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4071 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
rewrite: `gh pr view --json <field>` fails silently (exit 1, no rewrite) Open

area:cli bug priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4067 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
`rtk read <file>` exits 1 with no output on a non-UTF-8 file, while `--head-lines`/`--tail-lines` on the same file are byte-exact Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4065 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
cc-economics: ccusage 20.0.20 JSON schema mismatch (missing field `month`) Open

area:cli bug priority:high

rtk-ai/rtk#4063 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Name the program in spawn-failure errors for captured commands Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4056 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
A `pip` that exists but can't run blocks the `uv` fallback Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4054 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
ls: never compacts and ignores all flags — output is raw `ls -la`, larger than native Open

area:cli bug needs-reproduction priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4051 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
pip error messages say "pip pip" (tool name doubled) Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:low

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 92/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4050 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
`rtk init --opencode` appears to skip Claude hook installation Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

rtk-ai/rtk#4046 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Six meta commands still spend the daily hook reminder, silencing the next filtered command for 24h Open

area:cli bug help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4036 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
rtk gain reports a missing hook on only one of its five views — never on the empty report, where it matters most Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4035 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
rewrite: recover bundle savings when one statement is unattestable — 30% headroom, blocked on the Copilot "no laundering" CVE invariant Open

area:security enhancement needs-info priority:medium

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4030 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
bug(lexer): the permission lexer is blind to `#` comments — an apostrophe in a comment masks a later `$(...)` and collapses segment splitting Open

area:cli area:security bug priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4029 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
rewrite: bare `ls`/`find` producers into a safe `head` tail emit decorated names and cost more tokens than raw (#3343) Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4026 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
gh run view --exit-status: filter skipped on a failed run, so the one case worth compressing is the one passed through raw Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4025 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
categorize_command buckets psql (and mysql) as "other" instead of "cloud" in rtk gain Open

area:performance bug good first issue priority:low

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4023 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
psql/mysql filters only fire on the decorated output shape: -A/--csv/-t and mysql batch mode pass through uncapped at any size Open

area:cli bug priority:high

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4022 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
gh pr checks: skipping and cancelled checks are dropped from the summary, so the totals do not add up Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:medium resolved-pending-close

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4021 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Add token-filtering support for dagRobin (DAG task tracker for AI agents) — 76KB on a bare `list`, 35KB on the scoped `ready` Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4020 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`rtk log` drops the dotnet test failure summary, so a failing run summarizes as 0 errors Open

area:cli bug priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4018 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`rtk ast-grep`: Windows absolute paths never parse, so the filter degrades to a full passthrough with no savings Open

area:cli bug platform:windows priority:medium

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4017 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`rtk ast-grep`: the per-file cap cuts inside a structural match, so the kept output is a truncated code fragment Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4016 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`rtk ast-grep`: `-C`/`-A`/`-B` context lines are counted as matches, eating the per-file cap and inflating the overflow hint Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4015 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
rtk read consumes the whole input before windowing: unbounded streams never terminate, peak RSS scales with file size Open

area:performance bug help wanted priority:high

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4012 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`NPM_SUBCOMMANDS` drifts from npm's command set in both directions: `bin` was removed in npm 9, `trust`/`undeprecate` are missing, aliases unswept Open

area:cli bug needs-info priority:medium

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4011 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
22 rewrite rules end in a bare subcommand alternation with no word boundary (`git branchless` → `rtk git branchless`) Open

area:cli bug help wanted priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 84/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4009 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
bug(discover): npm and bun workspace flags before the subcommand are never rewritten Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4004 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
`gain`: interactive TUI sessions inflate `Total exec time` 865x — 131 rows are 99.7% of the reported total Open

area:cli bug priority:medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4003 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Hook config I/O: finish the consolidation started in #3552 (4 leftover call sites) Open

area:config enhancement help wanted priority:low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rtk-ai/rtk#4002 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
feat(js): add aube/aubr/aubx package manager support Open

area:cli enhancement help wanted priority:medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rtk-ai/rtk#3993 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
rtk go test -v ignores the explicit -v flag and drops all passing-test output, breaking grep-based gates Open

area:cli bug priority:high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rtk-ai/rtk#3985 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
rtk git diff --check emits no output at all, silently discarding every whitespace diagnostic Open

area:cli bug good first issue priority:high resolved-pending-close

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rtk-ai/rtk#3984 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Intermittent SIGABRT: "thread local panicked on drop, aborting" across unrelated subcommands Open

area:performance bug needs-reproduction priority:high

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rtk-ai/rtk#3981 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026

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