Install latest/stable of Headroom

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install headroom

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Details for Headroom

Package name

  • headroom

License

  • Apache-2.0

Last updated

  • 20 October 2026 - latest/stable
  • Today - latest/beta

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Local context-compression proxy and MCP server for AI applications

Headroom compresses prompts and tool output before forwarding requests to your LLM provider. It includes an HTTP proxy, MCP server, code-aware compression and AWS Bedrock support.

Examples

headroom proxy --port 8787
headroom mcp serve
headroom.cache-ttl --help

File access

Headroom can use files in your home directory. To also use USB drives and other removable media (/media, /mnt), run:

sudo snap connect headroom:removable-media
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