A drop-in replacement for the Claude CLI that trades a rewrite for serious performance gains: 73% faster cold starts, 80% lower memory in long sessions, near-perfect command compatibility. The author benchmarked 1,200+ invocations and hit 100% exit code parity and 98.7% output matching. If you run Claude CLI in scripts, tight loops, or memory-constrained environments, this is worth testing. It's source-available on request only, positioned for high-profile customers, so you'll need to ask for access. Once you have the binary, it slots into your PATH ahead of the original and everything keeps working. The performance table is unusually detailed for this kind of tool.
npx skills add https://github.com/aradotso/trending-skills --skill claude-better-cli