Abbreviatory turns a test run, a log or a JSON response into a short report. Failures, errors and warnings first, repeats folded into one line, all within a byte budget. Everything it leaves out stays one command away. No language model, no network.
0.05%
A 5.6 MB log of 63,369 lines reduced to a 3,075-byte report
7 of 7
Failed tests shown with their messages, out of a go test run of 4,880 lines
15.1 MB
Peak memory while a 1,107 MB log of 12.5 million lines streamed through
52 tests
Go tests passing, with the race detector finding nothing
From the test suite of v0.1.0, recorded on a Linux machine with an Intel Xeon at 2.10GHz and 2 CPUs. The result files are in the code repository under test/results.
release
Abbreviatory v0.1.0 is out. It’s a small command-line tool that takes a big pile of tool output, a test run, a build log, a JSON response, and turns it into a short …
testing
A tool that leaves things out has to be careful about what. So the testing for v0.1.0 is built around four promises, checked over and over: the report never goes over the …
explainer
Context is whatever a reader has in front of them when they decide what to do next. For a person, it’s the terminal. For a coding agent, it’s the text that …
the name
The name says what it does. Abbreviatory is an old adjective meaning “serving to shorten”, from abbreviate plus -ory, the ending that turns a verb into …
Download the binary and pipe a test run or a log through abbreviatory reduce. Questions, bug reports and formats it should read are welcome.