Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste
Governor is a plugin for Claude Code designed to reduce token and context waste by promoting concise, professional outputs and improving session efficiency. It offers features like response compression, memory file shrinking, and filtering of noisy tool outputs to help users manage context bloat. The plugin also provides telemetry, planning guardrails, and compatibility with other AI agents through portable rule snippets.
- ▪Governor reduces token usage through compact responses, memory compression, and filtering of verbose tool outputs.
- ▪It includes commands like /governor:compress and /governor:audit to manage and optimize context files such as CLAUDE.md.
- ▪Benchmarks show Governor can save up to 55.5% in output tokens and block over 96% of noisy tool output tokens.
- ▪The plugin supports protected-span safety, ensuring code blocks, URLs, commands, and other critical elements are preserved during compression.
- ▪Governor provides planning and scope guard features to prevent drift during broad coding tasks.
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Governor for Claude Code Keep Claude Code concise, clean, and under control. Compact professional output, context hygiene, tool-output filtering, and usage telemetry for Claude Code Max users. Governor is the serious alternative to style-only token savers. It keeps the agent concise, shrinks recurring memory files, blocks noisy logs from flooding context, and adds planning guardrails for broad tasks. The installed Claude Code command namespace is still /governor:*. Quick Start bash install.sh --force Restart Claude Code, then run: /governor:status /governor:audit /governor:compress CLAUDE.md Governor auto-starts in compact professional mode when the plugin is loaded. Use /governor:off to disable response compression and /governor:on to re-enable it.
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