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Use case · Workflow automation

Every tool call
becomes model input.

LeanCTX normalizes, compresses and audits the tool output your automations feed to models: 95+ shell patterns, provider connectors for GitHub, GitLab, Jira and Postgres, composable context via ctx_compose, and a complete audit trail. Pipelines get cheaper, deterministic and reviewable.

Automate on LeanCTX See shell patterns

The problem

What it costs you today.

CI logs torch your budget

A failing pipeline dumps megabytes of logs into your triage agent. The signal is three lines; you pay for all of them.

Each integration is bespoke

Jira here, GitHub there, a database somewhere. Every workflow glues its own fetch-and-paste code with no shared layer.

Nobody can audit what agents saw

When an automation acts on stale or wrong context, you need to know exactly what it read. Most stacks can’t answer that.

Shipped today

The capabilities that do the work.

Everything below ships in the open-source binary today. No roadmap items, no waitlists.

Your tools LeanCTX Model

95+ shell patterns cargo, npm, docker, terraform, pytest… 88–99% smaller output

Provider pipeline GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Postgres and REST sources, one consolidation path

ctx_compose assemble task-scoped context packs deterministically

Audit trail every read, command and saving is recorded locally

Budgets per-role token budgets keep pipelines inside limits

Quickstart

From zero to first gain.

# compress any command in a pipeline

$ lean-ctx -c "npm test"

# works for builds, containers, terraform…

$ lean-ctx -c "docker compose up --build"

# review what your automation consumed and saved

$ lean-ctx savings summary

# reproducible savings + recall + latency scorecard

$ lean-ctx benchmark scorecard

Go deeper

One guide. Two journeys. Full reference.

guide Data sources & providers Connect GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Postgres and REST. journey MCP tool catalog & gateway Route external tools through one governed layer. journey Team, Cloud & Self-Hosting LeanCTX inside pipelines and shared environments. reference Shell patterns What gets compressed and by how much.

FAQ

Questions teams ask before adopting.

How much smaller does shell output get?

88–99% on common tools: a cargo build shrinks from hundreds of lines to errors plus result, npm install to the dependency delta. 95+ patterns ship today, and unknown commands fall back to safe generic compression.

Can LeanCTX pull context from our internal systems?

Yes. Providers for GitHub, GitLab, Jira and Postgres ship today, plus a custom REST provider. All provider data flows through the same consolidation pipeline into search, graph and knowledge.

Is automation output auditable?

Every read, command and saving lands in a local, Ed25519-signed ledger. You can export exactly what an automation consumed and verify the chain.

Take back control of your context.

Free for local use, forever. CI enforces it. One binary, ten minutes to the first measured gain.

Automate on LeanCTX See plans

Every tool callbecomes model input.