diff --git a/scripts/bin/compress-7zst b/scripts/bin/compress-7zst
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+level="${level:-15}"
+
+cores=$(python3 -c "import os; print(os.cpu_count())")
+echo "Starting ZSTD compression with $cores cores and level $level"
+# "$cmd" -I "zstd -T$cores -$level" --checkpoint=.1024 --totals --totals=SIGUSR1 -c -f "$@"
+7z a -m0=zstd -mx"$level" -mmt"$cores" "$@"