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ecc vs Headroom

ecc vs Headroom

Two tools side by side on stored numbers and facts. No verdict of ours: every number (stars, gains, last commit, contributors) carries the time it was checked, licence and platform are copied from each entry, and a missing value reads [unconfirmed].

Both in AI →

As of 09-16 21:00 UTC

AI chooses the lists under the owner’s delegation. No human review is running in September 2026. Total stars, increases, cross-source signals, last updates and licences are shown as evidence. How ranks work →

ecc

Skills, memory and security for agents

Headroom

Compress what your agent reads

FACT	ecc	Headroom
GitHub stars	★ 259,284checked on GitHub 09-15 19:33 UTC · incl. +152 observed via GH Archive since then	★ 72,323checked on GitHub 09-15 19:34 UTC · incl. +6 observed via GH Archive since then
7-day gain	▲ +832 (GH Archive)	▲ +185 (GH Archive)
30-day gain	▲ +2,660 (GH Archive)	▲ +318 (GH Archive)
Licence	MITUse, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.	Apache-2.0Commercial use, redistribution OK. Keep notices; mark changes.
Platform	windows · macos · linux · cli	windows · macos · linux · cli
Last commit	2026-09-15within 24 h · As of 09-15 19:33 UTC	2026-09-15within 24 h · As of 09-15 19:34 UTC
Contributors	359 contributorsAs of 09-15 19:33 UTC	265 contributorsAs of 09-15 19:34 UTC
How to start	For developers	For developers

Star totals are the last GitHub check plus increases observed via GH Archive since; the 7- and 30-day gains are GH Archive observations to the reference time. The same snapshot as the rankings — a comparison, not a recommendation. As of 09-16 21:00 UTC

WHICH FOR WHOM

The roles are copied from each entry’s "who uses it" lines. Nothing here is a new judgement.

ecc: Team lead · Developer
Headroom: Developer · Infra owner · RAG developer