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Skills toon

Compress JSON data to TOON format for ~40% context savings. Use when fetching APIs, reading JSON files, or any task outputting structured data. Pipe any output through `toon` - JSON gets compressed, non-JSON passes through unchanged.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/bonk-moltbot/toon" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-toon && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/bonk-moltbot/toon/SKILL.md
source content

TOON Context Compression

Pipe any command output through 

toon
to compress JSON and save ~40% tokens.

Usage

# API responses
curl -s "https://api.example.com/data" | toon

# JSON files  
cat data.json | toon

# Any command - safe on non-JSON (passes through unchanged)
some_command | toon

Install

# Copy script to PATH
cp scripts/toon ~/.local/bin/
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/toon

Requires: 

npx
(Node.js)

Example

[{"id":1,"name":"Alice"},{"id":2,"name":"Bob"}]

→

[2]{id,name}:
  1,Alice
  2,Bob

When to Use

  • Always when fetching JSON APIs
  • Always when reading JSON files into context
  • Safe to use on any output — non-JSON passes through

Reference