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ttok 0.4

Simon Willison's WeblogPublished 4 days ago

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The ttok command-line tool, which counts tokens using OpenAI's tiktoken library, has been updated after a few years with fixes and a new command to list available models. It supports integration with uvx for flexible token counting workflows.

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