Simon Willison releases ttok 0.4 with --list-models command and Click warning fix
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Simon Willison has released ttok 0.4, a command-line tool for counting tokens built on OpenAI's open source tiktoken library.
According to Willison's announcement, the update adds a --list-models command that lists available models, fixes a Click warning, and updates the project's CI.
The tool can be run through uvx, which Willison demonstrates with the pattern cat file.txt | uvx ttok, letting users count tokens in piped input without a separate installation step.
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- Simon Willisonttok 0.4 Adds --list-models Command for Counting Tokens with tiktoken
Simon Willison has released ttok 0.4, a command-line tool for counting tokens built on OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. The update adds a --list-models command, fixes a Click warning, and updates CI, and the tool can run through uvx, for example with cat file.txt | uvx ttok.
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