release
Abbreviatory 0.2 Tells You What Changed Since the Last Test Run
The first release made one run’s output short. This one compares it with the run before. Abbreviatory v0.2.0 keeps a history per command, and every report now opens …
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Abbreviatory Launches as an Open Source Tool That Cuts Test Runs and Logs Down to What Matters
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
How Abbreviatory Was Tested Against Its Four Promises
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
What Context Reduction Is and Why Abbreviatory Does It Without a Language Model
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
Why the Project Is Called Abbreviatory
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 …