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TokenCount

Count words, characters, and estimate GPT tokens with readability. Use when tracking length, checking budgets, comparing complexity.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bytesagain/tokencount
Or

TokenCount

A real text and token counter for the terminal. Count words, lines, characters, and sentences. Estimate LLM token usage with cost projections. Analyze word frequency and compare files side by side.

Commands

CommandDescription
tokencount count <file|text>Count words, lines, characters, sentences, paragraphs, avg word length, and reading time. Works with files or inline text
tokencount tokens <file>Estimate LLM token count using 3 methods (chars÷4, words×1.33, bytes÷3.5), shows cost estimates for GPT-4 class models and context window usage bars
tokencount freq <file>Full word frequency analysis — ranked table with counts, percentages, bar chart, and vocabulary richness score
tokencount top <file> [n]Show top N most common words (default: 20)
tokencount diff <file1> <file2>Compare two files — side-by-side word/line/char/token counts, unique words in each, common vocabulary

Requirements

  • Standard Unix tools: wc, awk, sort, tr, grep, comm

Examples

# Count everything in a file
tokencount count README.md

# Count inline text
tokencount count "Hello world, this is a test."

# Estimate tokens and costs
tokencount tokens article.txt

# Word frequency analysis
tokencount freq novel.txt

# Top 10 words
tokencount top essay.txt 10

# Compare two drafts
tokencount diff draft-v1.txt draft-v2.txt

Metadata

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Updated2026-03-27
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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-bytesagain-tokencount": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags

#token#word#count#text#nlp#ai#gpt
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