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Simon Willison updates ttok token counting CLI tool

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Simon Willison has updated his command-line tool, ttok, which utilizes OpenAI's tiktoken library for token counting. The update addresses a warning related to the Click library, improves continuous integration, and introduces a new command to list available models. The tool can be integrated with uvx for counting tokens in various files. AI

IMPACT Minor update to a developer tool for token counting, offering marginal improvements in usability.

RANK_REASON Update to a command-line tool that uses an open-source library.

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Simon Willison updates ttok token counting CLI tool

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 (HU) ·

    ttok 0.4

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/ttok/releases/tag/0.4">ttok 0.4</a></p> <p><code>ttok</code> is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source <a href="https://github.com/openai/tiktoken">tiktoken</a> library.</p> <p>It hasn't been in …

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