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Less is more. Make your agents smarter and faster. It’s not just about saving time; it’s about the feeling of not wasting it.

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Make your agents smarter and faster

_{Smart token savings for coding agents, shell commands, and CI.}

_{Sponsored by JFrog}

Frogi, our mascot, appears when you run just boost.

Frogi, the Boost mascot

Boost wraps the commands your agents and CI already run, save tokens, turns noisy logs into compact, structured context. Agents keep the signal: errors, timings, changed counts, cache hits, and next useful clues. Repeated package logs, progress bars, and CI noise stay out of the prompt.

your terminal — prefix any command with boost your coding agent — boost init wires up Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more your CI — one line: uses: jfrog/boost@v0

Quick start

Install Boost:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfrog/boost/main/install.sh | bash

Wire it into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and supported CI:

boost init

Use it in GitHub Actions:

steps:
  - uses: jfrog/boost@v0
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4

Smart token savings

Boost does not just truncate output. It applies command-aware filters that preserve what agents need to reason about the result.

# Without Boost: ~9,800 tokens of install noise
$ npm ci
npm warn deprecated [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] …
added 1285 packages, audited 1286 in 45s
found 0 vulnerabilities

# With Boost: ~640 tokens, same outcome, cache-backed
$ boost npm ci
[OK] npm ci · 1,285 packages restored from boost cache in 2.4s · 0 vulnerabilities

The agent sees the useful summary, not the scrollback. On failures, Boost keeps the failing test, compiler error, stack frame, or CI step that matters.

What it wraps

Agents: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf, Cline.
CI: GitHub Actions now; GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Azure Pipelines are coming soon.
Commands: Docker, npm, pytest, Git, GitHub CLI, and other shell commands pass through the same wrapper.

Usage examples

boost docker build ... — compressed build log and layer-cache summary
boost npm ci — dependency summary, local package cache, retry-safe output
boost pytest — quiet output on green runs, useful failures when tests break
boost gh run view --log — CI logs condensed to top failures plus summary

Update

boost update

Documentation

See the full documentation for commands, configuration, OpenTelemetry export, and CI recipes.

Security & Privacy

Local-first. Command history and raw logs stay on your machine.
Only metadata leaves. When Boost sends usage data, it goes only to JFrog to help improve the product. Exported metadata includes timing, exit code, and cache stats, never raw logs, file contents, or env values. Secrets matching patterns like *_TOKEN, *_SECRET, AWS_*, DATABASE_URL are redacted before write or export.
Open protocol, signed binaries. OpenTelemetry-native. Binaries ship signed via GitHub Releases.

Full policy, supported versions, and how to report a vulnerability: see SECURITY.md.

License

Dedicated to the memory of Dima Gershovich — a brilliant engineer, a talented musician, and a dear friend. Read Dima's story