Everyone knows token economy is 💰
I came across this new abstraction layer for integrating external tooling into LLMs, called printingpress.dev.
From an API spec, from a website with no public API, from a beloved community fan project – one command prints a token-efficient Go CLI, a Claude Code skill, an OpenClaw skill, and an MCP server. Peter Steinberger showed the way with discrawl and gogcli: a local SQLite mirror beats a remote API call, compound commands beat ten round trips, and an agent-native CLI beats raw HTTP. The press bakes that playbook into every binary it prints. Muscle memory for agents.
It uses custom compiled CLI saving valuable token exchange commonly seen with MCP, connectors etc. MCP traffic is heavy. Part of why my exploration into local LLMs stopped was that I realized how much context an MCP exchange takes.
Similar to how exa, tavily MCPs clean up garbage from the web to provide LLM clean search, printingpress goes a step further and forgoes the whole MCP exchange for a CLI interface that runs locally and does all the dirty work more efficiently, saving your tokens.
The beauty of it is there is also a prompt kit that helps generate brand new CLIs from any service. So point it at a service and watch it go.