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ckanthony/Chisel
Reduce context usage on file use. Send only unified diffs instead of full files (up to 20-100× fewer tokens), and read large files with targeted `grep`/`sed` instead of full reads (up to 500×). Kernel-enforced path confinement hard-locks the agent to a configured root: no accidental reads or writes outside scope. Standalone for your file access or embed in any MCP server (Rust, Node.js, Python via
Quality score 31/100
Installation
Example client config (verify package name in the repo README)
{
"mcpServers": {
"Chisel": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "Chisel"]
}
}
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