Terse auto-detects OpenClaw, tracks its sessions with live token and cost stats, compresses your prompts by 40–70%, and enforces a hard budget ceiling — so an agent that never sleeps can never overspend.
Terse auto-detects OpenClaw via process and config detection — no OpenClaw configuration changes — and starts tracking the session immediately.
Terse recognizes a running OpenClaw instance by process and config — one of 8 agents it detects out of the box. Nothing to change in your OpenClaw setup.
Zero setupThe critical feature for an always-on agent: burn-rate, token, or dollar ceilings enforced with alert → SIGSTOP pause → SIGTERM kill, before the next API call.
Spend capToken usage, estimated cost, and burn rate tracked continuously — visible in the Terse monitor and the floating island, with full session history.
LiveThe instructions and messages you write get the full 35+ technique pipeline in Light, Balanced, or Aggressive mode — 40–70% fewer tokens with meaning preserved.
3 modesAn unattended agent needs alerts that travel: macOS notifications, Slack webhook, or ntfy.sh push to your phone — 9 alert kinds plus a weekly savings digest.
9 alerts~25 consent-gated scans: agent loops, duplicate tool calls, redundant reads, context burn, secret exposure, runaway runtimes — with one-click fixes.
~25 scansNot every agent exposes the same telemetry. Here's exactly what you get with OpenClaw versus Claude Code.
Everything about using Terse with OpenClaw.
Terse supports every major AI coding agent — 8 detected automatically.
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