Hello, I am the author of avante.nvim. Thank you for your suggestion, it's very helpful for avante.nvim!

I plan to abandon nui.nvim for implementing the UI (actually, we only use nui's Split now, so it's exceptionally simple to abandon). Regarding the tiktoken_core issue, everything we did was just to make installation easier for users. However, the problem you mentioned is indeed an issue. I plan to revert to our previous approach: only providing installation documentation for tiktoken_core instead of automatically installing it for users.

As for why avante.nvim must depend on tiktoken_core, it's because I've used the powerful prompts caching feature recently introduced by the Anthropic API. This feature can greatly help users save tokens and significantly improve response speed. However, this feature requires relatively accurate token count calculations, as it only takes effect for tokens greater than 1024; otherwise, adding the caching parameter will result in an error.

Check out that Makefile. It’s scary af: literally just downloading the latest release of a package not even controlled by the author with 0 documentation. What’s stopping the owner of that repo from uploading a supply chain attack which will get distributed to every user of Avante.

Suggestion to the author: fork the repo and pin it to a hash.

Nui is a wide spread plugin in Neovim ecosystem, it’s use to have high quality UI widgets.

Probably it also use Plenary for I/O as well.

Not reinventing the wheel is a good thing, don’t see the problem with the dependencies.