Memory compression in AI chats
Developed with TypeScript, billion-context is a compression plugin operating on the context window, which refers to the capacity of information AI models can process at once. This tool aims to reduce token usage by five times by fitting billions of tokens into smaller spaces during long monthly sessions.
Updates
- November 8, 2026: Stars 4,690 → 4,694, latest release v0.1.213 (November 7, 2026).
What you get
- processes billions of tokens in long sessions
- reduces input costs and token usage
- uses the AI model's context window efficiently
Installation
npm install -g billion-context --prefix=~/.localRunning it
curl -s http://localhost:8787/__bili/healthIf you don't write code
I want to install and run the Billion Context tool. To do this, you can install the package using the command `npm install -g billion-context --prefix=~/.local` and check its status with the command `curl -s http://localhost:8787/__bili/health`.
Repository: https://github.com/ranxianglei/billion-context. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.
Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.
Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.
Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.
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TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-11-08: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. The introductory text was prepared with AI from the repository's own documentation, and this page was machine-translated from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.