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. Li
Our verdict
A solid, actively developed project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.
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. The project is written primarily in Python, released under Apache-2.0, and has 67,411 stars and 5,195 forks on GitHub. 251 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-24. The latest tagged release is v0.36.5 (2026-08-22). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Language
- Python
- Last push
- 2026-08-24
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v0.36.0Release v0.36.0
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