Headroom: open-source context compression cuts coding agent tokens by 20%
headroomlabs-ai · github · 2026-10-19
The popular GitHub repo headroomlabs-ai/headroom (76k stars) compresses tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM: 20% fewer tokens for coding agents and 60-95% fewer for JSON, with the same answers. It ships as a Python library, proxy, or MCP server and plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, and LangChain workflows.
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