Frugal is a local usage co-pilot for AI coding assistants. It catches repeated context, trims wasteful sessions, and prepares lighter continuations — so you keep coding longer on the plan you already pay for. Starting with Claude Code, expanding to every major AI tool.
Free public beta. Windows · Claude Code · fully local · no account needed.
"I got tired of AI coding tools burning through usage on repeated context — so I built Frugal."
Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex re-send your project history on every turn. Long sessions, repeated file reads, noisy command output — it all eats the same usage budget you code against. Vendors tell you to manage this by hand. Frugal automates that discipline, on your machine, without changing how you work.
— the maker
One heavy session, one continuation guide, and the same plan suddenly goes a lot further.
It reads the session data your AI coding tool already writes on your machine — out of the request path, never adding latency, never during a response.
Repeated reads and commands, noisy output filling your context, sessions grown heavy enough that every turn re-pays for the whole history.
Auto Saver writes a lighter continuation guide. Paste it into a fresh session and keep working — same project, fraction of the context.
Detects heavy sessions in the background and prepares a continuation guide automatically — at most once per session, never in your way.
Spots identical reads and commands across a session, sizes the waste, and shows what it would save to reuse instead.
Found, prepared, and confirmed savings are counted separately. Estimates are labeled as estimates. No invented numbers — ever.
No account, no upload, no cloud processing. Your code and conversations never leave your machine.
Sensitive files are flagged by name only — never opened — so you can keep them out of AI context.
Power users get the full break-down: session score, burn forecast, cache analysis, evidence log, and a run contract.
Frugal is built with a pluggable tool-adapter architecture. We're starting with Claude Code and shipping support for more tools — drastic cost and session savings for every AI coder.
Full optimization: auto-saver, repeated-work detection, continuation guides, privacy guard, and the complete technical view. Windows beta.
A second tool adapter is already scaffolded in the codebase. Cursor optimization is coming, using the same proven engine and recipes.
Broader AI coding-assistant optimization with shared scanners and recipes across tools. macOS and Linux support on the roadmap too.
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