Headroom Surges to 5.1K Stars With +1,266 Today: Context Compression Tool Saves 92% Tokens for AI Agents via Six Compression Algorithms

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Headroom (chopratejas/headroom) compresses tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, and files before they reach the LLM, deploying as a library, proxy server, or MCP server. Benchmarks show 92% token reduction on code search (17,765 to 1,408 tokens) and SRE debugging (65,694 to 5,118 tokens), with v0.22.4 shipping June 1. The community leaderboard tracks 60B+ tokens saved across adopters using six compression algorithms including SmartCrusher and CodeCompressor.