# Sibyllinesoft Scribe

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Sibyllinesoft Scribe and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Cuts coding agent token use sharply on SWE-bench-style tasks, often more than RAG or grep read. Caveat: in worst cases it reads the whole file.

## Why people recommend it

- Large token reduction for coding agents (4 comments): "it turns out that this can reduce context usage in SWE-bench style tasks by >90% over RAG and grep/read" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46583501)) "the performance difference is extreme; up to 98% token use reduction on SWE-bench tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590255)) "I have a tool that reduces agent token consumption by 30%" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738581))

## What people warn about

- Reads whole file in worst cases (1 comments): "It seems worth it as it saves context space but in worst case scenarios it fails by reading the whole file" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465399))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [RTK](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rtk.md): 43 recommend
- [AgentReady](https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentready.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sibyllinesoft Scribe", https://hackerapproved.com/p/scribe/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).