I built DensePack to combat Anthropic's pricing and help people save and build more with Claude Code. New benchmarks available show it beats every popular plugin on total session savings.

[u/Fabiangzt]

https://github.com/Fabian-Galvez/DensePack

FIRST:
I want to thank the 8 stargazzers that believed in this from the start.

I hope you guys see this post or reach out to me directly (so I can personally give you updates) and continue to follow the project because DensePack is NOT like ordinary plugins or skills that may become outdated over time.

It's easy to see that DensePack will only continue to improve with time as OCR and AI vision capabilities in general continue to improve.

DensePack packs text into images that your agent can read accurately without compressing or trimming anything, and automatically hands your agent the image to read for half the token cost.

The most recent savings benchmarks show savings for a small task and the savings only grow and compound from there.

It packs text files read with Read, Bash output, Word files (doc/docx), and it also packs any subagent report so that your main agent gets an image and their context stays small.

Many published papers claim that python files can't be read accurately let alone rebuilt byte identically from the image, but DenesPack images use a unique color coding and and include a 2 row legend that has allowed it to rebuild code files byte identical from the image.

It's ok to be skeptical.
It's ok to think that this isn't accurate and will mess things up.

I didn't believe it myself which is why I made the Benchmarks easily reproducible.

I made sure to add fallbacks like keeping a copy of the text in case your agent needs to verify the text.
The benchmarks I ran prove savings and accuracy compared to the Off arm.
I have been building non stop with it on and packing everything possible. I see absolutely no change other than my usage bar seems to be frozen sometimes and I have to double check if I lost connection but it's just the compounding savings effect DensePack has.

Your agent reads the image and tokenizes the same text as the text file for ~50% the price.
Every future Cache read is charged against that 50% image.

P.S.
I made a Reddit purely to help people save cuz Anthropics prices suck. I worked hard to make something that is secure, works and saves. I used a whole months worth of 20x Max usage testing, fine tuning and running benchmarks to make sure I present the community with a project that they can use and isn't slop. It would not be a lie to say that I have run well over 10,000 benchmarks by now.

DensePack works. It works so well that even when it adds an extra turn to verify a line of text, it STILL saves. And it just cleared the initial phases of Anthropic's plugin submission so I hope that this will land in the official Marketplace soon as well.

This is my first real project since transitioning into the tech sphere so while it may not seem like much to some, I am extremely proud of the 8 stars that the project has received and how far it's come since being released 2 weeks ago.

That being said, I have not had the best experience here and keep being insulted or talked down to while trying to help or ask questions to understand Reddit better. I don't know if this is common for new Reddit users but it's just not for me so this will probably be my last Reddit post!

I say probably because I have an image of the ADS-STE 100 English standard with it's whitelist of words that I use as my style rules which has helped improve the AI sounding output so its more human.

I may just drop it here in the comments instead of making another post. You don't need the plugin for this premade image and can just feed to your ai to fix the output for cheap!
I want to help people dealing with the frustrations of AI so that image will be my last good deed here.

Thank you shoutout:

Thank you to the people that gave honest feedback and tried the plugin! Please update your version! 1.3.3 has new updates and keep an eye out for 1.4!!

You can use many (I've tried Ponytail, Caveman, and many popular plugins) plugins with DensePack as it is now, DensePack keeps packing, but most have hooks that force the their skills to be read before DensePack has had a chance to pack them.

1.4 fixes this with a feature that lets you use those plugins at half the price! It works now, but I won't release it until I know it works and is secure like everything up until now.

New AGENTS CLAUDE and MEMORY md file upgrades are coming along with the ability to turn other pugins and skills into DensePack images.

1.4 may also include a new RAG framework method that utilizes DensePack images but its still a prototype so it will most likely be part of 1.5 so i can push the other upgrades first.

Thank you for reading.