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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
2026-10-17
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
History
106 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
437 open
Forks
5,866
Commits
3,314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+577 +0.8%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+54 +1.7%
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
2026-09-19
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-11-28
History
8 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
590 open
Forks
4,152
Commits
4,514 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
2026-09-02
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-01-28
History
5 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
19 open
Forks
1,380
Commits
452 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
2026-10-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2010-11-13
History
11 history points
License
LGPL-3.0
Issues
Disabled
Forks
413
Commits
1,406 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
3 list mentions
First commit
2020-04-28
History
12 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
15 open
Forks
251
Commits
162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
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
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
citusdata/cstore_fdw

Columnar storage extension for Postgres built as a foreign data wrapper. Check out https://github.com/citusdata/citus for a modernized columnar storage implementation built as a table access method.

Updated
2021-03-08
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2014-04-03
History
1 history point
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
69 open
Forks
168
Commits
216 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.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-14
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2013-02-02
History
8 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
81 open
Forks
318
Commits
16,251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
sarensw/MacPacker

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-01
History
14 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
34 open
Forks
36
Commits
397 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
5 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
2026-09-11
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-09-08
History
10 history points
License
MIT
Issues
0 open
Forks
27
Commits
387 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
5 history points
License
MIT
Issues
2 open
Forks
18
Commits
127 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
2026-09-17
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2024-10-04
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1 open
Forks
3
Commits
225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
ImpossibleForge/pfc-jsonl

Cold storage that queries like hot storage. High-ratio JSONL compressor with block-level random access. Query cold storage in seconds — no restore, no full decompression. 5–13% ratio on JSONL logs, 25–57% smaller than gzip. 1-hour window via DuckDB in under 6s. Free for personal and open-source use.

Updated
2026-06-19
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-01
History
2 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
0 open
Forks
0
Commits
58 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
ImpossibleForge/pfc-duckdb

DuckDB extension to read PFC-JSONL compressed log files with block-level timestamp filtering

Updated
2026-05-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2023-02-02
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
0 open
Forks
0
Commits
409 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history