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headroomlabs-ai/headroom (68,064 stars) sits as a library, proxy or MCP server and compresses tool outputs, logs, files and RAG chunks. Its README breaks results out by scenario instead of quoting one figure: code search over 100 results goes 17,765 to 1,408 tokens (92%), SRE incident debugging 65,694 to 5,118 (92%), GitHub issue triage 73%, codebase exploration 78,502 to 41,254 (47%), with SQuAD v2 and BFCL accuracy held at 97%. (GitHub) Install caveat for the Python 3.14 crowd: the dashboard's dollar-savings tile is priced through LiteLLM, which won't install on 3.14+, so token savings still track but the dollar figure stays $0.00.
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62,876 stars, ~313/day. Compresses tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks and files before they hit the model, and unusually publishes the other side of the trade: GSM8K holds at 0.870 (±0.000), TruthfulQA *improves* 0.530 → 0.560, SQuAD v2 and BFCL retain 97%. Real workloads: 92% sav...
Headroom compresses tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, and files before they ever reach the model. It deploys as a library, a proxy server, or an MCP server, and the benchmarks are blunt: 92% token reduction on code search (17,765 down to 1,408) and SRE debugging (65,694 down to...
headroomlabs-ai/headroom at 62.5K stars sits between an agent and its LLM compressing tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks in flight, claiming 20% fewer tokens for coding agents and 60-95% fewer for JSON at unchanged answer quality (GitHub). Six content-type-specific comp...
If the margin collapse is happening to the providers, the demand-side version is happening in your own usage graph. Practitioners are now stacking independent token-reduction layers and compounding the savings past 90% total. (Codepointer) The recipe that's making the rounds:...
Every story above generates tokens, and tokens are money. rtk is the clearest "do this today" item in the whole dataset. It's a single Rust binary, 59,658 stars, created January 22 and pushed as recently as June 7, that proxies common dev commands and claims 60 to 90% reductio...
1. Use claude agents --json to build session dashboards. Claude Code v2.1.145 outputs all live agent sessions as structured JSON with status, model, elapsed time, and parent relationships. Pipe it into a tmux status bar widget or session picker script for switching between bac...
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