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Caveman vs Ponytail vs Chisle: I benchmarked the Claude Code token-saving plugins on 20 tasks

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If you use Claude Code , you've probably seen the two popular plugins that promise to cut your token bill: caveman , which makes Claude talk like a caveman, and ponytail , which pushes it to write less code. I built a third one, Chisle , and benchmarked all three against Claude with no plugin at al…

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  1. 2026-10-06 20:14 · DEV Community — AI
    Caveman vs Ponytail vs Chisle: I benchmarked the Claude Code token-saving plugins on 20 tasks

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