AgentReady
Ranked 3 of 3 prompt compressors by recommenders
Compresses LLM prompts by stripping filler and duplicate text before they are sent, cutting token use about 40-60%. Critics object to routing API keys through its third-party proxy.
Compresses LLM prompts by stripping filler and duplicate text before they are sent, cutting token use about 40-60%. Critics object to routing API keys through its third-party proxy.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cuts LLM token use substantially
“Real numbers across 2.4M+ calls: 42% average reduction.”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: I built a proxy that cuts LLM costs 40-60% – no AI involved” “40-60% fewer tokens, same responses, same streaming”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%” Compression runs locally, keys stay yours
“We receive text, compress it, and return it. Your LLM then processes it with your own keys.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%” “compress tokens entirely on your local machine. Nothing leaves your environment.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: I cut LLM API bill by 55% with a Python text compressor, no AI involved” “And we NEVER ask for your LLM API keys.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Wary of sending API keys through proxy
“There's zero percent chance that I would proxy all my LLM calls with my API key through some third party service.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%” “hesitant to provide a 3rd party virtually MITM access to both my LLM usage + API keys”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%” “provide you our OpenAI key (via the X-Upstream-API-Key header)?”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%”
Other prompt compressors people recommend
The two most recommended other prompt compressors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTK | 43 | 44 | 49% | 8 | 1 mo4 owners | — |
| Sibyllinesoft Scribe | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
| AgentReadyThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Real numbers across 2.4M+ calls: 42% average reduction.”
“It deterministically strips filler words, redundant connectors, duplicate lines, and boilerplate from prompts before you send them.”
“compress tokens entirely on your local machine. Nothing leaves your environment.”
“That endpoint https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress endpoint doesn't exist, I get a 404.”
“The cleaner architecture — and what we should have shown — is a two-step approach”
“provide you our OpenAI key (via the X-Upstream-API-Key header)?”
“We receive text, compress it, and return it. Your LLM then processes it with your own keys.”
“And we NEVER ask for your LLM API keys.”
“There's zero percent chance that I would proxy all my LLM calls with my API key through some third party service.”
“hesitant to provide a 3rd party virtually MITM access to both my LLM usage + API keys”
“clever approach i will give it a try”
“That’s nice awesome idea!”
“40-60% fewer tokens, same responses, same streaming”
“AgentReady prepares and retrofits agentic coding "best practices" onto existing codebases, so that agents have clean and accurate context.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.