Words, not pixels
A screenshot costs roughly (width x height) / 750 tokens, and rides along on
every later turn. A 4 megapixel capture, one Retina laptop screen, is about
4,800 tokens. The words are usually all the agent needed. On a real screenshot:
1,018 image tokens became 37 text tokens, 96% saved.
Secrets never leave the Mac
Upload a screenshot and every key in it is now in a provider’s logs, forever.
Cheapshot replaces API keys, tokens, passwords and private hostnames with
[AWS_KEY] style labels on your Mac, before any text leaves it.
Screenshots, PDFs and recordings
PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and PDF, plus any video ffmpeg can open. A recording is read only where the screen changed: a 51 minute 4K talk became a 17 screen transcript in 35 seconds on an M4 Pro Mac mini, 31,348 image tokens to 1,133, 96% saved.