AI coding assistants consume tokens for every line of context they process. Reading a 500-line file to understand a single function wastes context window capacity, increases costs, and slows responses. TokenLean solves this with 32 specialized CLI tools that extract exactly the information needed – nothing more.
Instead of reading entire files, run targeted commands like tl-exports to get module signatures in roughly 50 tokens instead of thousands.
Tool Categories
Code Analysis
tl-structure – Overview of file and directory organization
tl-symbols – Extract function, class, and variable definitions
tl-types – Type definitions and interfaces
tl-exports – Module export signatures
tl-react – React component props and structure
tl-docs – Documentation and comments extraction
tl-entry – Identify application entry points
tl-schema – Database schema analysis
Impact & Dependency Analysis
tl-blast – Calculate blast radius for changes
tl-deps – Dependency visualization with tree mode
tl-importers – Find files importing a module
tl-callgraph – Function call relationships
tl-coverage – Test coverage information
tl-complexity – Cyclomatic complexity metrics
Version Control Integration
tl-diff – Token-efficient diff summaries
tl-history – File change history
tl-blame – Authorship attribution
tl-hotspots – Change frequency analysis
tl-pr – Pull request summaries
tl-changelog – Generate release changelogs
Discovery & Search
tl-search – Pattern-based code searching
tl-secrets – Detect exposed credentials
tl-todos – Find TODO and FIXME comments
tl-env – Environment variable tracking
tl-dead – Identify unused code
tl-api – Extract API endpoints
tl-routes – Web framework route discovery
Key Features
Single-purpose tools – Each tool does one thing well
Minimal output – Only the information you actually need
Token conscious – Designed for AI context efficiency
Composable – JSON output for tool chaining
Fast execution – Uses ripgrep for high-speed searching
Git-aware caching – Invalidates automatically on changes
Language Support
Primary focus on JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, with most tools also supporting Python and Go.
