Hystax open-sources a coding-agent compressor that cut one test bill by 22.7%

CEO and co-founder Nick Smirnov says the tool makes repeated build logs retrievable; Hystax measured savings in a benchmark using Codex and GPT-5.5.

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Hystax is extending its cloud-cost-management playbook into AI-agent infrastructure: Kompressor is free to inspect and use, while its integration into OptScale AI gives the company a path to sell broader cost and governance tools. Its 22.7% savings claim is company-run and workload-specific, so teams should test it against their own billed traffic.

Hystax open-sources a coding-agent compressor after a 22.7% bill-cut test — CEO and co-founder Nick Smirnov says the tool makes repeated build logs retrievable; Hystax measured savings in a benchmark using Codex and GPT-5.5.

Hystax released OptScale Kompressor, an MIT-licensed tool that shortens repeated machine output sent by AI coding agents to language models. CEO and co-founder Nick Smirnov says it cut the provider bill by 22.7% in Hystax's benchmark without a statistically significant change in task success.…

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