effortless
by HeyCubit
A plugin for Claude Code that picks how much reasoning effort to use for each prompt. It also shows a bar with how full the chat is and how long the prompt cache stays warm, with one-click compacting or handoff. The repository also contains textless, a desktop app that shows pictures instead of the long list of steps while Claude works.
- Stars
- 274 +13 a day, est.
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- HTML
- Age
- 21 days
What you can do with it
- Let a small model choose Low to High effort for each prompt automatically, cutting cost on routine tasks
- Watch the cache countdown and context fullness, then compact or hand off a heavy chat in one click
- Show pixel art, quotes or chess in place of the stream of steps while Claude works (textless)
Make money with it
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An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Lower Claude API or usage costs for a small team by avoiding high effort on simple prompts
- Avoid paying full price for cold-cache messages by seeing when the cache expires and handing off long chats
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install it from inside Claude Code with the two plugin commands (marketplace add, then plugin install), then run /reload-plugins.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Needs a Claude Code setup and login to be useful
- Runs code on your machine as a plugin, so read the hooks first
- Optional Jev judge needs a paid TypeSafe key, which is saved in plain text if pasted in the setup guide
- The cost savings come from the author's own small benchmark
- Compaction by Haiku and the cheaper-model switching are experimental
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
