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headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress 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. Library, proxy, MCP server.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-16
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-01-07
History
15 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
448 open
Forks
4,420
Commits
2,273 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+1,115 +1.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+285 +14.3%
deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-15
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-01-23
History
6 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,299 open
Forks
4,883
Commits
3,228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
gchq/CyberChef

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2016-11-28
History
6 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
569 open
Forks
4,048
Commits
4,432 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
chopratejas/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-18
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
History
3 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
309 open
Forks
2,361
Commits
1,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction

A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding). Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇰🇷 🇷🇺 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

Updated
2023-09-07
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-01-28
History
2 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
19 open
Forks
1,382
Commits
448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
borgbackup/borg

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

Updated
2026-07-09
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2010-02-14
History
9 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
291 open
Forks
862
Commits
10,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
PaddlePaddle/PaddleNLP

Easy-to-use and powerful LLM and SLM library with awesome model zoo.

AI dev
Updated
2026-05-23
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-02-05
History
5 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
374 open
Forks
3,034
Commits
6,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
peazip/PeaZip

Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

Updated
2026-07-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2010-11-13
History
8 history points
License
LGPL-3.0
Issues
Disabled
Forks
387
Commits
1,350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
KuroLabs/stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻‍♂️⭐

Updated
2024-10-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-04-28
History
8 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
15 open
Forks
245
Commits
162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
vortex-data/vortex

An extensible, state-of-the-art framework for columnar compression, and the fastest FOSS columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now an Incubation Stage project at LFAI&Data, part of the Linux Foundation.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
Lists
0 list mentions
First commit
2024-01-02
History
24 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
286 open
Forks
186
Commits
6,202 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+6 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+47 +0.8%
Achno/gowall

A tool to convert a Wallpaper's color scheme / palette, OCR with VLM's Traditional & Hybrid, Image Compression ,color palette extraction, image upsacling with Adversarial Networks and more image processing features.

Updated
2026-06-10
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2024-07-22
History
6 history points
License
MIT
Issues
13 open
Forks
38
Commits
195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
bareos/bareos

Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

Updated
2026-07-10
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2013-02-02
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
76 open
Forks
307
Commits
15,474 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
89luca89/pakkero

Pakkero is a binary packer written in Go made for fun and educational purpose. Its main goal is to take in input a program file (elf binary, script, even appimage) and compress it, protect it from tampering and intrusion.

Updated
2023-01-16
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-02-20
History
2 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
3 open
Forks
45
Commits
272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
8b-is/smart-tree

Smart Tree: not just a tree, a philosophy. A context-aware, AI-crafted replacement for 20+ tools with MEM8 quantum compression, semantic search, AST-smart editing, and partnership memory. Crafted with care by human + AI—accept no knock-offs.

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-09-08
History
7 history points
License
MIT
Issues
1 open
Forks
26
Commits
383 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
iamsopotatoe-coder/TinyLoad

PE packer/crypter for Windows. compresses and encrypts executables with a custom virtual machine into a self extracting stub.

Updated
2026-06-26
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-16
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
1 open
Forks
14
Commits
103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
LMP88959/Digital-Subband-Video-2

Lossy/lossless wavelet video codec. Comparable to H.264 in terms of efficiency and quality.

Updated
2025-12-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2024-10-04
History
2 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
2 open
Forks
3
Commits
205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history