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# Filtering verbose terminal outputs for agent tasks

Strip unnecessary logs and boilerplate from shell commands to keep context clear

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askRequest command execution
- ThenRun command and filter stream
- ResultProvide concise diagnostic summary

Execute infrastructure and development shell commands while stripping out repetitive boilerplate, voluminous logs, and unneeded metadata. The bot runs diagnostic or deployment commands, applies extraction rules to retain relevant error states or identifiers, and returns a concise summary for further troubleshooting.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
When tasked with running shell or infrastructure commands, invoke the requested tools in the terminal. Before analyzing the output, trim redundant metadata, blank entries, and oversized logs, retaining only relevant error traces, status flags, and key resource identifiers. Save trimmed diagnostic summaries to notes. Always prompt for user approval before executing any destructive operations, file deletions, or cluster state changes.
```

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## Tools it uses

TerminalNotes

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- cli
- terminal
- logs
- context
- automation

## Source

[Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409955)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-15 · Updated 2026-10-15 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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