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AI AssistantDoes “rtk” skill really cut agent tokens by 60–90%? We tested it
Does “rtk” reduce Claude Code token usage?
Part 2 of a series where we take public “token saving” add-ons for coding agents and run the same paired A/B benchmark against each of them. Part 1 was the caveman skill (advertised −65%, measured −8.5%).
TL;DR: rtk advertised saving: 60–90%. Measured on real agent work: +7.6% more expensive at low reasoning effort (p=0.004), ±0% at high effort. Setup: Claude Code 2.1.201 · claude-sonnet-5 low and high efforts · SkillsBench. Task quality: unchanged in both arms, at both effort levels.
