terse

Transparent proxy that sits in front of any other MCP server and shrinks its tool output before it reaches the model.

#3102 by GitHub starsChecked 2026-11-02

What it connects

Transparent proxy that sits in front of any other MCP server and shrinks its tool output before it reaches the model. Lossless by default — a denser encoding of the same bytes, with a round-trip gate asserting an exact inverse, so nothing is dropped or summarised. Repeated calls to the same tool emit a delta against the prior result instead of the whole payload. Per-tool opt-in, no decode step, no model in the loop. uv tool install terse-mcp then terse proxy --

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Source: https://github.com/inth3shadows/terse · ★ 2 on the source repo

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