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Adrien Eppling a1673f7428 docs: scope savings claims to bash output and document the estimator
RTK was documented as delivering "60-90% token savings", which reads as a
cost reduction. What RTK actually reduces is bash output bytes. Those are
one contributor to input tokens, which are themselves only part of a bill
that also counts output tokens, so the reduction dilutes at every step.

- add docs/guide/resources/savings-explained.md as the canonical explainer:
  the savings chain, both estimators, and what RTK does not reduce
- rescope the headline claim across README (7 languages), the guide, hook
  rules, agent definitions and module READMEs
- relabel per-command tables as bash output reduction, keeping every figure
- document that reported tokens are estimates: rtk gain uses bytes/4
  (src/core/tracking.rs), filter tests use split_whitespace().count().
  Neither is a real tokenizer, so ratios hold but absolute counts do not

Remove figures that had no source: the $3/Mtok constant and its $36
example, the +/-10% tokenization accuracy claim, the 99.5% hook-install
figure, the invented session tables in README and INSTALL, and the 30-50%
parser range.

CHANGELOG is untouched. Shipped release notes stay as a historical record.
2026-07-22 18:33:54 +02:00
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GitHub Copilot Hooks

Part of hooks/ — see also src/hooks/ for installation code

Specifics

  • Uses the rtk hook copilot Rust binary (not a shell script) -- no jq dependency
  • Auto-detects two input formats: VS Code Copilot Chat (snake_case tool_name/tool_input) and Copilot CLI (camelCase toolName/toolArgs with JSON-stringified args)
  • VS Code format: returns updatedInput for transparent rewrite
  • Copilot CLI format: returns permissionDecision: "deny" with suggestion (Copilot CLI API doesn't support updatedInput)

Testing

bash hooks/test-copilot-rtk-rewrite.sh