Lean Gain
Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything.
The figures are Prompt-Studio's own benchmark medians, measured — not computed
from the current repo. Source: benchmarks/results/latest.json and
benchmarks/results/2026-08-12-lean-vs-ponytail.md.
Scoreboard
Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label carries the exact figure:
lean gain measured · gpt-4o-mini · n=3 · 7 tasks
Lines of code baseline ████████████████████ 100%
lean ██████·············· 25–35% ▼ 65–75%
Speed lean ▸ ~4× faster (3.5–4.3×, full = 4.25×)
Cost not shown by design — see Honesty boundary.
This repo: /prompt-studio:lean-stats (real tokens, this session)
/prompt-studio:lean-debt (counted shortcut ledger)
/prompt-studio:lean-audit (what's still cuttable)
Honesty boundary
These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo.
No cost bar is shown by design, not omission: on single-shot tasks Lean's
cost is roughly flat (~100–108% of baseline in latest.json) because the Lean
system-prompt input tokens offset the output-token savings. Claiming a cost win
would contradict the measured data. For real per-session cost use
/prompt-studio:lean-stats (actual token counts) and /prompt-studio:lean-debt
(counted ledger); for what's still cuttable, /prompt-studio:lean-audit.
Basis is a single model (gpt-4o-mini, n=3) — the footer says so. Do not present it as multi-model.
Boundaries
One-shot display. Edits nothing, changes no mode. "stop lean" or "normal mode": revert.