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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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A shortcut only ever resolves to a URL and then takes the same path `oc open` does, so it changes nothing about what a page costs or how it reads. The last argument takes every word after it, so `oc ddg search claude code cli` and `oc aws search s3 lifecycle rules` need no quoting, and a path argument keeps its slashes, so `oc learn doc azure/aks/what-is-aks` reaches that page.

A few of these (X, Stack Overflow, YouTube, Microsoft Learn search) read pages that look login-gated or JS-only from the outside, by finding the server-rendered HTML, feed, inline data, or public API the page already ships without a login. Stack Overflow search goes through the Stack Exchange API, and each result prints its `question_id`: read one with the `question <id>` feed rather than following its link, since the question page itself answers a bot challenge instead of the question. AWS, Google Cloud, Rust, Java, TypeScript, PHP, and cppreference render docs search client-side, or as a page too bare for oc to read, so their `search` goes through DuckDuckGo with a baked-in `site:` filter instead; Go needs no such fallback, because pkg.go.dev renders its search results on the server and `oc go search` simply opens them. Python's docs are built with Sphinx, which publishes the site's full-text search index as one static file, so `oc py search` fetches that index (cached on disk for a day), ranks it locally, and prints a numbered result list; a query that names a symbol exactly, like `json.dumps`, links straight to its anchor. The same backend will work for any Sphinx site, including most Read the Docs projects. MDN also renders its search client-side, but the page gets its results from a public JSON endpoint, so `oc mdn search` asks that endpoint directly and prints the site's own ranking; that `api` shape in a site definition works for any site whose search answers as JSON. Node.js ships no search endpoint at all, but publishes its whole API reference as one static JSON file, so `oc node search` ranks that file locally the same way the Sphinx backend does, under the same day cache, and every module, class, method, property, and event heading links to its own anchor. Ruby's docs are built with RDoc, which also ships its search index as one static file, so `oc ruby search` ranks every class, method, and guide page locally the same way. PHP's manual has a lookup endpoint that sends an exact function name straight to its page, which is what `oc php fn` rides. Not supported yet: pages that only render with JavaScript and sites with hard bot challenges that expose no feed. Sites that genuinely require your account can be reached with `oc login` (bring your own cookies).
A few of these (X, Reddit, Stack Overflow, YouTube, Microsoft Learn search) read pages that look login-gated or JS-only from the outside, by finding the server-rendered HTML, feed, inline data, or public API the page already ships without a login. Stack Overflow search goes through the Stack Exchange API, and each result prints its `question_id`: read one with the `question <id>` feed rather than following its link, since the question page itself answers a bot challenge instead of the question. Reddit goes through the Atom feeds on www.reddit.com: old.reddit.com has sent logged-out readers to a login page since June 2026 and the `.json` views answer 403 without an OAuth token, so a reddit.com page URL handed to `oc open` still meets that wall, where `oc reddit post <id>`, or the same URL with `/.rss` on the end, reads the post and its comments. The feeds carry titles, authors, dates, and bodies but no scores or comment counts, and anonymous reddit.com allows roughly ten requests a minute per address, so a burst of Reddit shortcuts ends in a 429 that takes minutes to clear. AWS, Google Cloud, Rust, Java, TypeScript, PHP, and cppreference render docs search client-side, or as a page too bare for oc to read, so their `search` goes through DuckDuckGo with a baked-in `site:` filter instead; Go needs no such fallback, because pkg.go.dev renders its search results on the server and `oc go search` simply opens them. Python's docs are built with Sphinx, which publishes the site's full-text search index as one static file, so `oc py search` fetches that index (cached on disk for a day), ranks it locally, and prints a numbered result list; a query that names a symbol exactly, like `json.dumps`, links straight to its anchor. The same backend will work for any Sphinx site, including most Read the Docs projects. MDN also renders its search client-side, but the page gets its results from a public JSON endpoint, so `oc mdn search` asks that endpoint directly and prints the site's own ranking; that `api` shape in a site definition works for any site whose search answers as JSON. Node.js ships no search endpoint at all, but publishes its whole API reference as one static JSON file, so `oc node search` ranks that file locally the same way the Sphinx backend does, under the same day cache, and every module, class, method, property, and event heading links to its own anchor. Ruby's docs are built with RDoc, which also ships its search index as one static file, so `oc ruby search` ranks every class, method, and guide page locally the same way. PHP's manual has a lookup endpoint that sends an exact function name straight to its page, which is what `oc php fn` rides. Not supported yet: pages that only render with JavaScript and sites with hard bot challenges that expose no feed. Sites that genuinely require your account can be reached with `oc login` (bring your own cookies).

Want a website on that list? Open a pull request, or an issue naming the site; see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

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Full methodology, per-task rows, and the Codex runs live in [only-cli/benchmarks](https://github.com/only-cli/benchmarks). Where things stand (oc 0.5.1, September 2026, live sites):

- **125x fewer tokens than raw HTML** across the twelve real pages both could read: 8,519 against 1,064,474. 15x fewer than Jina Reader, 59x fewer than Playwright MCP's accessibility snapshot.
- **Real content on every page it could reach, and an honest failure on the two it could not.** Reddit now sends logged-out readers to a login wall, and every other tool returned that wall, or a 403 block page, as a success. Yahoo Finance refuses plain fetch outright and DuckDuckGo still blocks lynx; oc's Chrome impersonation read both.
- **Real content on every page it could reach, and an honest failure on the two it could not.** Reddit now sends logged-out readers to a login wall, and every other tool returned that wall, or a 403 block page, as a success. The suite hands every tool the old.reddit.com page URLs, which still end at that wall; since 0.5.2 the `oc reddit` shortcuts read the same threads through Reddit's Atom feeds, a route the suite does not measure yet. Yahoo Finance refuses plain fetch outright and DuckDuckGo still blocks lynx; oc's Chrome impersonation read both.
- **Half the cost of Claude Code's built-in `WebSearch`** on Wikipedia lookups: $0.23 against $0.45 for five questions, both 5/5 correct, on 25x less fresh input.
- **21% cheaper than `WebFetch` and 34% cheaper than `WebSearch`** on eleven language docs lookups, at equal or better accuracy.
- **10% cheaper than `WebFetch` and 49% cheaper than `WebSearch`** on twelve dependency lookups across GitHub, npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io, Docker Hub, Stack Overflow and an RFC, 12/12 correct with no tuned shortcut for most of those sites.
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- The budget is a target rather than a hard cap: a page that would finish within about four times it is printed whole, because a second command costs the agent far more than the lines the cut would have saved
- The render leads with the page's main content and puts navigation, sidebar, and footer after it, so the budget is spent on what was asked for rather than on menus
- Benchmarked at roughly 140x fewer tokens than reading raw HTML across fifteen live pages, with per-task numbers at https://github.com/only-cli/benchmarks
- Works on any mostly-static website; tuned shortcuts ship for Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, X, LinkedIn (public guest views), DuckDuckGo, Bing, Stack Overflow (via its Atom feeds and the Stack Exchange API), Yahoo Finance (quotes, history, markets), Wikipedia (articles, search, and other language editions), the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Learn documentation sites (guides, CLI reference, and search), and the language documentation for Python, JavaScript (MDN), Node.js, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, PHP, TypeScript, C and C++ (cppreference), and .NET (the Microsoft Learn API browser)
- Works on any mostly-static website; tuned shortcuts ship for Hacker News, Reddit (via its Atom feeds, since old.reddit.com and the `.json` views need a login now), GitHub, X, LinkedIn (public guest views), DuckDuckGo, Bing, Stack Overflow (via its Atom feeds and the Stack Exchange API), Yahoo Finance (quotes, history, markets), Wikipedia (articles, search, and other language editions), the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Learn documentation sites (guides, CLI reference, and search), and the language documentation for Python, JavaScript (MDN), Node.js, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, PHP, TypeScript, C and C++ (cppreference), and .NET (the Microsoft Learn API browser)
- JSON APIs render like pages: an endpoint that answers with JSON becomes one numbered item per record, with the fields that differ between items kept and the ones every item shares stated once, so a search endpoint reads like a results page for a few hundred tokens
- A page that comes back with no readable text (JavaScript-only, a consent wall, a bot challenge) prints one line on stderr and exits 2, rather than reporting an empty render as a success. `--json` carries the same verdict as an `empty` field, so a caller can tell "nothing on this page" from "oc could not read this page" and fall back to a browser only when it is worth it
- A shortcut is `oc <site> <verb> [args]`: `oc hn top`, `oc reddit sub ClaudeAI`, `oc gh repo only-cli oc`, `oc ddg search claude code cli`, `oc learn doc azure/aks/what-is-aks`, `oc py library json`. Name the site by its short name, bare name, or domain (`oc hn`, `oc ycombinator`, `oc news.ycombinator.com`), the last argument takes every word after it so a query needs no quoting, and `oc sites` lists every site with its verbs. A shortcut resolves to a URL and then behaves exactly like `oc open <url>`
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oc py library json oc mdn js Array/map oc node api fs
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Sites: `hn`, `reddit`, `gh`, `x`, `linkedin`, `ddg`, `bing`, `so`, `yahoo`, `yt`, `aws`, `gcp`, `learn`, `wiki`, `py`, `mdn`, `node`, `ruby`, `go`, `rust`, `java`, `php`, `cpp`, `ts`. Name one by short name, bare name, or domain (`oc hn`, `oc ycombinator`, `oc news.ycombinator.com`). The last argument takes every word after it, so a query or title needs no quoting. `oc sites` lists every site with its verbs, which is cheaper than guessing one.
Sites: `hn`, `reddit`, `gh`, `x`, `linkedin`, `ddg`, `bing`, `so`, `yahoo`, `yt`, `aws`, `gcp`, `learn`, `wiki`, `py`, `mdn`, `node`, `ruby`, `go`, `rust`, `java`, `php`, `cpp`, `ts`. Name one by short name, bare name, or domain (`oc hn`, `oc ycombinator`, `oc news.ycombinator.com`). The last argument takes every word after it, so a query or title needs no quoting. `oc sites` lists every site with its verbs, which is cheaper than guessing one. Reddit reads through its Atom feeds: a reddit.com page URL given to `open` meets a login wall or a 403, so use `oc reddit post <id>` or add `/.rss` to the URL, and keep Reddit calls under about ten a minute or the site answers 429.

Prefer a shortcut over a hand-built URL when one exists for the site, and prefer `oc wiki article <title>` over a search when you already know the article's name.

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