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Headroom

Compress what your agent reads

WHO USES ITDeveloper · Infra owner · RAG developer

For developers

Compresses tool output, logs and files before they reach the model.

USE PACKAGE
START IN 5 MINUTES ↓
Headroom docs introduction page: a table of contents at left, intro text and a TypeScript code preview calling compress.

TESIGN TAKE

It drops in as a proxy without touching agent code, so you can measure savings on your own traffic first.

Activity and discovery evidence
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78,573 stars · checked on GitHub · 7-day +2 observed via GH Archive (as of )

RANKS All-time #60

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
Apache-2.0
USAGE
Commercial use, redistribution OK. Keep notices; mark changes.
LANGUAGE
Python
PLATFORM
windows · macos · linux · cli
ACTIVITY
last commit within 24 h () · latest release v0.42.0 () · 175 releases
COMMUNITY
359 contributors · 490 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an organization
SOURCES
GitHub
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
AI · LIBRARY

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

Tool output and logs usually reach the model untouched, pushing the context that matters out of the window. headroom sits in front of that path and compresses tool output, logs, files and RAG chunks before they are sent. It attaches as a library, a proxy or an MCP server and is published under Apache-2.0. The repository claims 20% fewer tokens for coding agents and 60-95% for JSON; those figures are its own.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • A proxy in front of the agent that shrinks long logs on the way through
  • An internal RAG preprocessing step that lowers token cost

WHO IT'S FOR

Developer
long logs and tool output keep crowding the context
Infra owner
cuts team-wide token cost at the proxy layer
RAG developer
shrinks retrieved chunks before they reach the model

START IN 5 MINUTES

$ pip install "headroom-ai[all]"
$ headroom wrap claude
$ headroom doctor
# Proxy mode with no code changes:
$ headroom proxy --port 8787

CAVEATS

  • headroom wrap also installs Serena at user scope (skip with --code-memory none)
  • Intel Macs have no native wheel; the README points to the Docker install
  • Savings are the repository's own benchmark and grow with repetitive data

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN
AT SOURCE
KEPT
CREATED → FIRST SEEN
248d
WHEN FIRST SEEN
71,807 ★
SOURCES
GitHub

The same facts in machine-readable form — View as Markdown · JSON

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TIMELINE

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  2. FIRST SEEN BY TESIGN