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Headroom at a glance
Checked 20 Oct 2026Compress 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. L… Added from the nightly trending feed on 2026-10-20 with 76,363 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.
RepoQuarry. “Headroom.” Checked 20 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/headroomWhat it replaces
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Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Headroom and we email you if its licence terms change.
Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
- Actively maintained100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks.
100+ people committing in the last 12 months · 515 pull requests merged in 30 days · 161 issues opened, 229 closed in 30 days
Stars over time
Building history+405 stars since 20 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.
- Headroom
Tracked daily since 20 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.
Commits per week, last 52 weeks
active 11 of the last 12 weeksDown 13% on the 12 weeks before.
Where these numbers come from
- Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
- Star history: counted every night since 20 Oct 2026.
- Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
- Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
- Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.