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#AI#CLI#LLM#agentic#tool

Headroom is a compression layer for AI coding agents.

Install: uv tool install "headroom-ai[all]"

Or run as Docker install:

docker pull ghcr.io/chopratejas/headroom:latest

It can be used with Claude Code, opencode etc, but also integrated in Pipelines as with LangChain

Update with pip: pip install -U headroom-ai

Proxy

headroom proxy starts a proxy server on your system which will then call the LLM provider.

Setting it up with custom Claude Code Providers:

headroom proxy --anthropic-api-url https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic

Then replace the URL in .claude Config with: http://127.0.0.1:8787