headroom
Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.
Reduce the size of outputs and logs before they reach the language model, saving processing time and resources.
From the README
uv tool install "headroom-ai[all]" command -v headroom
- MCP server — headroomcompress, headroomretrieve, headroomstats for any MCP client
- Cross-agent memory — shared store across Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, auto-dedup
- headroom learn — mines failed sessions, writes corrections to CLAUDE.local.md (default, gitignored) or CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md / GROK.md
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headroom has 68.1k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 5.3k times. headroom is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2026. headroom is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are agent, ai, anthropic, claude-code.
What is headroom?
Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.
Is headroom open source?
headroom is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.
Is headroom free?
Yes. headroom is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does headroom use?
headroom is available under the Apache-2.0 license.
What language is headroom written in?
headroom is written mainly in Python.
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