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Headroom: Cut Your LLM Token Usage by Up to 95% Without Changing Your Answers (opens in new tab)

If you're building AI agents or running LLM pipelines in production, you already know the pain: tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, and conversation history pile up fast. Before you know it, you're burning through tokens at a rate that makes your billing dashboard uncomfortable to look at. Headroom is an open-source project that tackles this problem directly. It compresses everything your AI agent reads — before it ever reaches the LLM — and claims 60–95% token reduction on real workloads, with a...

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