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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
2026-09-16
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
History
75 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
654 open
Forks
5,542
Commits
2,788 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+1,228 +1.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+38 +1.4%
deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-09
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-01-23
History
8 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,393 open
Forks
4,965
Commits
3,392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
gchq/CyberChef

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-07
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-11-28
History
7 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
557 open
Forks
4,073
Commits
4,461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
2026-07-25
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-01-28
History
4 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
19 open
Forks
1,380
Commits
450 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.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-29
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2010-02-14
History
11 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
227 open
Forks
868
Commits
11,115 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
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-02-05
History
7 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
336 open
Forks
3,027
Commits
6,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
2026-08-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2010-11-13
History
10 history points
License
LGPL-3.0
Issues
Disabled
Forks
398
Commits
1,365 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
10 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
15 open
Forks
246
Commits
162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
vllm-project/llm-compressor

Transformers-compatible library for applying various compression algorithms to LLMs for optimized deployment with vLLM

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-07-26
History
1 history point
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
126 open
Forks
657
Commits
3,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
aiming-lab/SimpleMem

SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents — Text & Multimodal

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-01-02
History
1 history point
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
392
Commits
115 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
2026-09-13
Lists
0 list mentions
First commit
2024-01-02
History
42 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
331 open
Forks
219
Commits
6,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
8 history points
License
MIT
Issues
12 open
Forks
36
Commits
195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-01
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2013-02-02
History
7 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
71 open
Forks
311
Commits
16,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
sarensw/MacPacker

Archive manager and 7zip replacement for macOS. Preview (nested) archives without extracting them. Extract single files.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-15
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-01
History
13 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
20 open
Forks
26
Commits
359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
4 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
3 open
Forks
44
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
2026-07-11
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-09-08
History
9 history points
License
MIT
Issues
0 open
Forks
26
Commits
384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
iamsopotatoe-coder/TinyLoad

Open source Windows x64 PE packer and crypter. Compresses and encrypts executables with a custom virtual machine into a self extracting stub.

Updated
2026-08-31
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-16
History
4 history points
License
MIT
Issues
2 open
Forks
19
Commits
127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
LMP88959/Digital-Subband-Video-2

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

Updated
2026-08-08
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2024-10-04
History
4 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