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tersetrim-0.2.0/LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
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+SOFTWARE.

tersetrim-0.2.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: tersetrim
+Version: 0.2.0
+Summary: Token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents — compacts CLI output, argv-safe, no junk files.
+Author: Terse Labs
+License: MIT
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/terse-labs/tersetrim
+Keywords: llm,ai-agent,cli,tokens,claude-code,developer-tools
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# tersetrim
+
+**Trim your shell output. Save your tokens.**
+
+*The first tool from **Terse Labs** — lean developer tools for the AI-agent era.*
+
+A token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, and friends). It runs
+your shell commands and compacts their verbose output so the agent reads far fewer tokens — without
+ever corrupting an argument or spraying junk files into your working directory.
+
+## Why
+
+LLM coding agents pay per token and blow through context on noisy tool output. A 20-line `git status`
+or a screenful of `git log` is mostly ceremony the model doesn't need. `tersetrim` compacts that output
+to the signal, so every command costs the agent less.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+pip install -e .               # from the tersetrim/ dir; PyPI publish pending
+tersetrim git status           # runs it, prints a compact summary + a savings line on stderr
+tersetrim git log -n 20        # one line per commit
+tersetrim --stats              # cumulative tokens saved so far
+```
+
+Prefix `tersetrim` to any command. Commands it doesn't have a compactor for pass through untouched —
+it never changes what a command *does*, only what the agent *reads*.
+
+## Example (real output)
+
+`tersetrim git log -n 2` on this repo:
+
+```
+[tersetrim] ~110->32 tok (70% saved)
+3cbb2eed4 chore: Terse Labs launch
+8a1879e9f tersetrim v0.2.0 — argv-safe token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents
+```
+
+The full multi-line `git log` (commit / Author / Date / blank / message per commit) becomes one
+`<short-hash> <subject>` line each — **70% fewer tokens** even on this tiny 2-commit log (longer logs save more), no commit dropped.
+
+`git status` collapses to `N changed:` + one porcelain line per file; `ls -l` becomes `size  name`
+(perms/owner/date dropped); `docker ps` / `docker images` keep only the columns an agent reasons about
+(names/status/image/ports, repo/tag/id/size) and drop the id/command/created noise.
+
+## Why argv-safe matters
+
+Some command wrappers **reconstruct your command into a shell string and re-exec it**. A quoted `>`
+or `/` inside an argument then becomes a shell redirect, spraying 0-byte junk files and directories
+into your cwd — a real bug class we hit in production before building this.
+
+tersetrim runs the **argv list directly** (`shell=False`), so the OS receives your arguments verbatim.
+That class of bug is **structurally impossible** — on Windows, macOS, and Linux alike. Its self-check
+asserts exactly this: an argument containing `>` and `/` round-trips untouched and creates no file.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- **v0.2** — `docker ps` / `docker images` ✓; next: `kubectl`, `npm ls`, `pip list`, `git diff --stat`
+- **v0.3** — a hook that auto-wraps an agent's commands (no per-command prefix)
+- **v0.4** — per-tool profiles + user-defined compactors
+- **v1.0** — a compactor plugin ecosystem
+
+## License
+
+MIT.

tersetrim-0.2.0/README.md

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+# tersetrim
+
+**Trim your shell output. Save your tokens.**
+
+*The first tool from **Terse Labs** — lean developer tools for the AI-agent era.*
+
+A token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, and friends). It runs
+your shell commands and compacts their verbose output so the agent reads far fewer tokens — without
+ever corrupting an argument or spraying junk files into your working directory.
+
+## Why
+
+LLM coding agents pay per token and blow through context on noisy tool output. A 20-line `git status`
+or a screenful of `git log` is mostly ceremony the model doesn't need. `tersetrim` compacts that output
+to the signal, so every command costs the agent less.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+pip install -e .               # from the tersetrim/ dir; PyPI publish pending
+tersetrim git status           # runs it, prints a compact summary + a savings line on stderr
+tersetrim git log -n 20        # one line per commit
+tersetrim --stats              # cumulative tokens saved so far
+```
+
+Prefix `tersetrim` to any command. Commands it doesn't have a compactor for pass through untouched —
+it never changes what a command *does*, only what the agent *reads*.
+
+## Example (real output)
+
+`tersetrim git log -n 2` on this repo:
+
+```
+[tersetrim] ~110->32 tok (70% saved)
+3cbb2eed4 chore: Terse Labs launch
+8a1879e9f tersetrim v0.2.0 — argv-safe token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents
+```
+
+The full multi-line `git log` (commit / Author / Date / blank / message per commit) becomes one
+`<short-hash> <subject>` line each — **70% fewer tokens** even on this tiny 2-commit log (longer logs save more), no commit dropped.
+
+`git status` collapses to `N changed:` + one porcelain line per file; `ls -l` becomes `size  name`
+(perms/owner/date dropped); `docker ps` / `docker images` keep only the columns an agent reasons about
+(names/status/image/ports, repo/tag/id/size) and drop the id/command/created noise.
+
+## Why argv-safe matters
+
+Some command wrappers **reconstruct your command into a shell string and re-exec it**. A quoted `>`
+or `/` inside an argument then becomes a shell redirect, spraying 0-byte junk files and directories
+into your cwd — a real bug class we hit in production before building this.
+
+tersetrim runs the **argv list directly** (`shell=False`), so the OS receives your arguments verbatim.
+That class of bug is **structurally impossible** — on Windows, macOS, and Linux alike. Its self-check
+asserts exactly this: an argument containing `>` and `/` round-trips untouched and creates no file.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- **v0.2** — `docker ps` / `docker images` ✓; next: `kubectl`, `npm ls`, `pip list`, `git diff --stat`
+- **v0.3** — a hook that auto-wraps an agent's commands (no per-command prefix)
+- **v0.4** — per-tool profiles + user-defined compactors
+- **v1.0** — a compactor plugin ecosystem
+
+## License
+
+MIT.

tersetrim-0.2.0/pyproject.toml

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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "tersetrim"
+version = "0.2.0"
+description = "Token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents — compacts CLI output, argv-safe, no junk files."
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = { text = "MIT" }
+keywords = ["llm", "ai-agent", "cli", "tokens", "claude-code", "developer-tools"]
+authors = [{ name = "Terse Labs" }]
+dependencies = []                      # stdlib-only by design (ponytail: no deps for what argv+re do)
+
+[project.scripts]
+tersetrim = "tersetrim:main"
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/terse-labs/tersetrim"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+py-modules = ["tersetrim"]

tersetrim-0.2.0/setup.cfg

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+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.egg-info/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: tersetrim
+Version: 0.2.0
+Summary: Token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents — compacts CLI output, argv-safe, no junk files.
+Author: Terse Labs
+License: MIT
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/terse-labs/tersetrim
+Keywords: llm,ai-agent,cli,tokens,claude-code,developer-tools
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# tersetrim
+
+**Trim your shell output. Save your tokens.**
+
+*The first tool from **Terse Labs** — lean developer tools for the AI-agent era.*
+
+A token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, and friends). It runs
+your shell commands and compacts their verbose output so the agent reads far fewer tokens — without
+ever corrupting an argument or spraying junk files into your working directory.
+
+## Why
+
+LLM coding agents pay per token and blow through context on noisy tool output. A 20-line `git status`
+or a screenful of `git log` is mostly ceremony the model doesn't need. `tersetrim` compacts that output
+to the signal, so every command costs the agent less.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+pip install -e .               # from the tersetrim/ dir; PyPI publish pending
+tersetrim git status           # runs it, prints a compact summary + a savings line on stderr
+tersetrim git log -n 20        # one line per commit
+tersetrim --stats              # cumulative tokens saved so far
+```
+
+Prefix `tersetrim` to any command. Commands it doesn't have a compactor for pass through untouched —
+it never changes what a command *does*, only what the agent *reads*.
+
+## Example (real output)
+
+`tersetrim git log -n 2` on this repo:
+
+```
+[tersetrim] ~110->32 tok (70% saved)
+3cbb2eed4 chore: Terse Labs launch
+8a1879e9f tersetrim v0.2.0 — argv-safe token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents
+```
+
+The full multi-line `git log` (commit / Author / Date / blank / message per commit) becomes one
+`<short-hash> <subject>` line each — **70% fewer tokens** even on this tiny 2-commit log (longer logs save more), no commit dropped.
+
+`git status` collapses to `N changed:` + one porcelain line per file; `ls -l` becomes `size  name`
+(perms/owner/date dropped); `docker ps` / `docker images` keep only the columns an agent reasons about
+(names/status/image/ports, repo/tag/id/size) and drop the id/command/created noise.
+
+## Why argv-safe matters
+
+Some command wrappers **reconstruct your command into a shell string and re-exec it**. A quoted `>`
+or `/` inside an argument then becomes a shell redirect, spraying 0-byte junk files and directories
+into your cwd — a real bug class we hit in production before building this.
+
+tersetrim runs the **argv list directly** (`shell=False`), so the OS receives your arguments verbatim.
+That class of bug is **structurally impossible** — on Windows, macOS, and Linux alike. Its self-check
+asserts exactly this: an argument containing `>` and `/` round-trips untouched and creates no file.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- **v0.2** — `docker ps` / `docker images` ✓; next: `kubectl`, `npm ls`, `pip list`, `git diff --stat`
+- **v0.3** — a hook that auto-wraps an agent's commands (no per-command prefix)
+- **v0.4** — per-tool profiles + user-defined compactors
+- **v1.0** — a compactor plugin ecosystem
+
+## License
+
+MIT.

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.egg-info/SOURCES.txt

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+LICENSE
+README.md
+pyproject.toml
+tersetrim.py
+tersetrim.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+tersetrim.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+tersetrim.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+tersetrim.egg-info/entry_points.txt
+tersetrim.egg-info/top_level.txt

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

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+

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.egg-info/entry_points.txt

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+[console_scripts]
+tersetrim = tersetrim:main

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.egg-info/top_level.txt

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+tersetrim

tersetrim-0.2.0/tersetrim.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""tersetrim — a token-optimizing command wrapper for AI coding agents. A Terse Labs tool.
+
+Shrinks verbose CLI output so an LLM reads fewer tokens — without the bug class that plagues
+shell-string rewrappers: a tool that rebuilds your command into a SHELL STRING and re-execs it
+turns a quoted '>' or '/' inside an argument into a redirect, spraying junk files/dirs into your
+working directory. tersetrim NEVER reconstructs a shell string — it runs the argv list directly,
+so that class of bug is STRUCTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE, on every platform.
+
+  tersetrim git status         # runs `git status`, prints a compact summary + a token-savings line
+  tersetrim git log -n 20      # compacts to one line per commit
+  tersetrim --stats            # cumulative tokens saved so far
+  tersetrim --self-check
+
+Design: a command has an optional COMPACTOR (compact its output); unknown commands pass through
+untouched. Compaction is pure text, so it can never change what the command DID — only what the
+agent READS. A tokens≈chars/4 estimate is logged to a ledger so savings are measurable.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+_LEDGER = Path(os.environ.get("TERSETRIM_LEDGER", Path.home() / ".tersetrim" / "savings.jsonl"))
+
+# A git PORCELAIN status line: two status codes from the git set, a space, a path. Prose lines from
+# plain `git status` ("On branch main") do NOT match, so the compactor never counts prose as a file.
+_PORCELAIN = re.compile(r"^[ MADRCU?!]{2} \S")
+
+
+def _compact_git_status(raw: str) -> str:
+    """`git status` -> one line per changed file + a count; passes prose through if no porcelain lines."""
+    files = [l for l in raw.splitlines() if _PORCELAIN.match(l)]
+    if not files:
+        return "clean working tree" if "nothing to commit" in raw else raw
+    return f"{len(files)} changed:\n" + "\n".join(f"  {l.strip()}" for l in files)
+
+
+def _compact_git_log(raw: str) -> str:
+    """Full `git log` (commit/Author/Date/blank/message blocks) -> one '<short> <subject>' per commit.
+    Leaves already-oneline output untouched. Never drops a commit; only trims per-commit prose."""
+    commits = []
+    cur = {}
+    for line in raw.splitlines():
+        if line.startswith("commit "):
+            if cur:
+                commits.append(cur)
+            cur = {"hash": line.split()[1][:9], "subject": ""}
+        elif line.startswith("    ") and cur and not cur["subject"]:
+            cur["subject"] = line.strip()
+    if cur:
+        commits.append(cur)
+    if not commits:                       # not the multi-line format (already --oneline etc.)
+        return raw
+    return "\n".join(f"{c['hash']} {c['subject']}" for c in commits)
+
+
+def _compact_ls_long(raw: str) -> str:
+    """`ls -l`/`ls -la` -> 'size  name', dropping perms/links/owner/group/date (noise for an agent).
+    Keeps the 'total' header out; leaves non-long output (plain `ls`) untouched."""
+    out = []
+    matched = False
+    for line in raw.splitlines():
+        if line.startswith("total "):
+            continue
+        # perms(10) links owner group size mon day time/year name...
+        m = re.match(r"^[-dlbcps][-rwxsStT]{9}[.+]?\s+\d+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+(\d+)\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+(.+)$", line)
+        if m:
+            matched = True
+            out.append(f"{m.group(1):>10}  {m.group(2)}")
+        else:
+            out.append(line)
+    return "\n".join(out) if matched else raw
+
+
+def _compact_docker_ps(raw: str) -> str:
+    """`docker ps` is very wide (id, image, command, created, status, ports, names). Keep the SIGNAL
+    — NAMES, STATUS, IMAGE, PORTS — and drop id/command/created. Header-driven so column widths/order
+    can't break it; passes non-table output (errors, `-q`) through untouched."""
+    lines = raw.splitlines()
+    if not lines or "CONTAINER ID" not in lines[0]:
+        return raw
+    hdr = lines[0]
+    # Parse ALL columns by header position (must track every one, or a slice bleeds an untracked
+    # column into a kept one), then emit only NAMES/STATUS/IMAGE/PORTS.
+    heads = [h for h in ("CONTAINER ID", "IMAGE", "COMMAND", "CREATED", "STATUS", "PORTS", "NAMES")
+             if h in hdr]
+    if "NAMES" not in heads or "STATUS" not in heads:
+        return raw
+    heads.sort(key=lambda h: hdr.find(h))
+    starts = [hdr.find(h) for h in heads] + [len(hdr) + 9999]
+    keep = ("NAMES", "STATUS", "IMAGE", "PORTS")
+    out = ["  ".join(k for k in keep if k in heads)]
+    for line in lines[1:]:
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        vals = {heads[i]: line[starts[i]:starts[i + 1]].strip() for i in range(len(heads))}
+        out.append("  ".join(vals.get(c, "") for c in keep if c in heads).rstrip())
+    return "\n".join(out)
+
+
+def _compact_docker_images(raw: str) -> str:
+    """`docker images` is wide (repo, tag, id, created, size). Keep REPOSITORY/TAG/IMAGE ID/SIZE
+    — the identity + footprint an agent reasons about — and drop CREATED (verbose relative time,
+    low signal). Header-driven like docker ps; passes non-table output (errors, `-q`) through."""
+    lines = raw.splitlines()
+    if not lines or "REPOSITORY" not in lines[0] or "SIZE" not in lines[0]:
+        return raw
+    hdr = lines[0]
+    heads = [h for h in ("REPOSITORY", "TAG", "IMAGE ID", "CREATED", "SIZE") if h in hdr]
+    heads.sort(key=lambda h: hdr.find(h))
+    starts = [hdr.find(h) for h in heads] + [len(hdr) + 9999]
+    keep = ("REPOSITORY", "TAG", "IMAGE ID", "SIZE")
+    out = ["  ".join(k for k in keep if k in heads)]
+    for line in lines[1:]:
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        vals = {heads[i]: line[starts[i]:starts[i + 1]].strip() for i in range(len(heads))}
+        out.append("  ".join(vals.get(c, "") for c in keep if c in heads).rstrip())
+    return "\n".join(out)
+
+
+def _compactor_for(argv: list[str]):
+    joined = tuple(a for a in argv if not a.startswith("-"))  # ignore flags for the key
+    for n in (2, 1):
+        key = joined[:n]
+        if key in _COMPACTORS:
+            return _COMPACTORS[key]
+    return None
+
+
+_COMPACTORS = {
+    ("git", "status"): _compact_git_status,
+    ("git", "log"): _compact_git_log,
+    ("ls",): _compact_ls_long,
+    ("docker", "ps"): _compact_docker_ps,
+    ("docker", "images"): _compact_docker_images,
+}
+
+
+def _est_tokens(s: str) -> int:
+    return max(0, len(s) // 4)  # ponytail: chars/4 is the standard rough token estimate
+
+
+def _record_saving(cmd: str, raw: str, out: str) -> None:
+    try:
+        _LEDGER.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        saved = _est_tokens(raw) - _est_tokens(out)
+        with _LEDGER.open("a", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            f.write(json.dumps({"ts": int(time.time()), "cmd": cmd,
+                                "raw_tok": _est_tokens(raw), "out_tok": _est_tokens(out),
+                                "saved_tok": saved}) + "\n")
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — telemetry must never break the wrapper
+        pass
+
+
+def run(argv: list[str], _runner=None) -> tuple[int, str]:
+    """Run argv DIRECTLY (never via a shell string) and return (returncode, output_for_agent).
+    _runner is a test seam returning (rc, stdout)."""
+    if not argv:
+        return 2, "tersetrim: no command given"
+    if _runner is not None:
+        rc, raw = _runner(argv)
+    else:
+        # shell=False + a list => the OS gets argv verbatim; no quoting/redirect reinterpretation.
+        p = subprocess.run(argv, capture_output=True, text=True)
+        rc, raw = p.returncode, (p.stdout or "") + (p.stderr or "")
+    comp = _compactor_for(argv)
+    out = comp(raw) if comp else raw
+    if comp and raw:
+        _record_saving(" ".join(argv), raw, out)
+        saved = _est_tokens(raw) - _est_tokens(out)
+        pct = (100 * saved // _est_tokens(raw)) if _est_tokens(raw) else 0
+        sys.stderr.write(f"[tersetrim] ~{_est_tokens(raw)}->{_est_tokens(out)} tok ({pct}% saved)\n")
+    return rc, out
+
+
+def _stats() -> int:
+    if not _LEDGER.exists():
+        print("tersetrim: no savings recorded yet (run some commands through it first)")
+        return 0
+    n = saved = 0
+    for line in _LEDGER.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        try:
+            saved += int(json.loads(line).get("saved_tok", 0))
+            n += 1
+        except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError):
+            continue
+    print(f"tersetrim: {n} commands compacted, ~{saved:,} tokens saved cumulatively")
+    return 0
+
+
+def _self_check() -> int:
+    import tempfile
+    # 1. THE rtk BUG CANNOT HAPPEN: an argument with '>' and '/' passes through as one argv element.
+    marker = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "tersetrim_selfcheck_marker")
+    if os.path.exists(marker):
+        os.unlink(marker)
+    hostile = f"a > {marker} and x/inf/) fragment"
+    rc, out = run(["python", "-c", "import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.argv[1])", hostile])
+    assert rc == 0 and out == hostile, f"argv passthrough corrupted the argument: {out!r}"
+    assert not os.path.exists(marker), "tersetrim created a redirect file — the shell-rewrap redirect bug is present!"
+    # 2. git status: counts porcelain lines, never prose, honest on clean
+    raw = "On branch main\nChanges not staged for commit:\n M a.py\n M b.py\n\nno changes added\n"
+    got = run(["git", "status"], _runner=lambda a: (0, raw))[1]
+    assert got.startswith("2 changed") and "a.py" in got and "On branch" not in got, got
+    assert run(["git", "status"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "nothing to commit, working tree clean\n"))[1] == "clean working tree"
+    # 3. git log: multi-line -> one line per commit, never drops a commit
+    glog = ("commit abc1234567\nAuthor: X\nDate: today\n\n    first subject\n\n"
+            "commit def8901234\nAuthor: Y\nDate: today\n\n    second subject\n")
+    gl = run(["git", "log"], _runner=lambda a: (0, glog))[1]
+    assert gl == "abc123456 first subject\ndef890123 second subject", gl
+    assert run(["git", "log", "--oneline"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "abc123 x\n"))[1] == "abc123 x\n"  # already-oneline untouched
+    # 4. ls -l: 'size  name', drops perms/owner/date; plain ls untouched
+    lsl = "total 8\n-rw-r--r-- 1 me grp 1234 Jul 15 10:00 file.py\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 me grp 4096 Jul 15 10:00 dir\n"
+    lo = run(["ls", "-la"], _runner=lambda a: (0, lsl))[1]
+    assert "1234  file.py" in lo and "rw-r" not in lo and "total" not in lo, lo
+    assert run(["ls"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "a.py\nb.py\n"))[1] == "a.py\nb.py\n"  # plain ls untouched
+    # 5. docker ps: keep NAMES/STATUS/IMAGE/PORTS, drop id/command/created; non-table untouched
+    dps = ("CONTAINER ID   IMAGE          COMMAND       CREATED       STATUS       PORTS                    NAMES\n"
+           "abc123def456   nginx:latest   \"/docker-e\"   2 hours ago   Up 2 hours   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp       web\n")
+    dc = run(["docker", "ps"], _runner=lambda a: (0, dps))[1]
+    assert "web" in dc and "Up 2 hours" in dc and "nginx:latest" in dc, dc
+    assert "abc123def456" not in dc and "docker-e" not in dc, "compactor must drop id/command"
+    assert run(["docker", "ps", "-q"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "abc123\n"))[1] == "abc123\n"  # non-table untouched
+    # 5b. docker images: keep REPOSITORY/TAG/IMAGE ID/SIZE, drop CREATED; non-table untouched
+    dim = ("REPOSITORY   TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED         SIZE\n"
+           "nginx        latest    abc123def456   2 weeks ago     187MB\n")
+    di = run(["docker", "images"], _runner=lambda a: (0, dim))[1]
+    assert "nginx" in di and "187MB" in di and "abc123def456" in di, di
+    assert "2 weeks ago" not in di and "CREATED" not in di, "docker images must drop CREATED"
+    assert run(["docker", "images", "-q"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "abc123\n"))[1] == "abc123\n"  # non-table untouched
+    # 6. unknown command passes through untouched
+    assert run(["echo", "hi"], _runner=lambda a: (0, "hi\n"))[1] == "hi\n"
+    # 6. flags don't break compactor lookup (git -C . status still compacts)
+    assert _compactor_for(["git", "status"]) is _compact_git_status
+    print("tersetrim self-check: PASS (argv passthrough quote/redirect-safe — shell-rewrap junk-file bug impossible; "
+          "git-status/git-log/ls-l compactors shrink without losing signal or fabricating state)")
+    return 0
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    args = sys.argv[1:]
+    if args == ["--self-check"]:
+        return _self_check()
+    if args == ["--stats"]:
+        return _stats()
+    if not args or args == ["--help"]:
+        print(__doc__.strip())
+        return 0
+    rc, out = run(args)
+    sys.stdout.write(out if (not out or out.endswith("\n")) else out + "\n")
+    return rc
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())