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Unlock 2x more Claude Code and Codex usage
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| 2026-07-31 | 485 |
| 2026-08-06 | 492 |
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# Headroom Desktop — cut Claude Code & Codex token costs by ~50%
**Headroom is a macOS menu bar app that cuts [Claude Code](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code) and [OpenAI Codex](https://openai.com/codex/) token costs by ~50% — without changing how you code.** It runs a local-first optimization pipeline that reversibly compresses the tool output, logs, and boilerplate that bloat every prompt, so the AI plan you already pay for stretches about 2x further. Nothing the model needs is lost — it can pull the original content back on demand.
> **Paid product.** Headroom is a paid subscription app (7-day free trial, plans from $3/mo) — see [pricing](https://extraheadroom.com/pricing). The desktop shell in this repo is MIT-licensed and open source, but the app requires a Headroom account and an active plan to run.
[](https://extraheadroom.com) [](https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop/releases/latest)
> **Stable:** macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
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> **Preview:** Linux x86_64 builds are experimental and currently support the core proxy flow only.
### Install
1. Go to the [latest release](https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop/releases/latest)
2. On macOS, download the `.dmg` file (for example `Headroom_0.2.9.dmg`)
3. Open the DMG, drag **Headroom** to Applications
4. Launch Headroom — it appears in your menu bar and walks you through setup
Headroom is signed and notarized, so macOS will open it without Gatekeeper warnings.
Linux preview artifacts are published on the same release page. Today they are best treated as a preview for the core Headroom proxy, Claude Code routing, and RTK flow. `Headroom Learn` is not supported yet on Linux preview builds.
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> **Note:** Headroom supports **Claude Code** and **Codex** (CLI and desktop app). Support for additional clients is planned.
Headroom is a local-first desktop tray app that routes your coding clients through a local optimization pipeline. The stable target is macOS; Linux builds are currently experimental. It installs and manages a self-contained Python runtime, bundles proven token-saving tools, and surfaces savings analytics — all without touching your system environment.
## How it works
Headroom sits in your menu bar and does three things:
1. **Installs a managed Python runtime** into Headroom-owned storage — isolated from your system Python, no `pip install --user` pollution.
2. **Chains token-saving tools** (`headroom` for prompt optimization, `rtk` for CLI output compression) between your client and the LLM API.
3. **Shows you the math** — daily and monthly savings charts, per-client token stats, and pipeline health.
The app ships as a slim Tauri shell (~a few MB). Heavy Python components are fetched on first launch and kept in `~/Library/Application Support/Headroom`.
### Proxy topology
Headroom is a two-hop local proxy. Nothing leaves `127.0.0.1` except the final upstream call, which goes to the same API your client would have called directly.
```
Claude Code / Codex
| ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = http://127.0.0.1:6767
| OPENAI_BASE_URL = http://127.0.0.1:6767/v1
v
:6767 Rust intercept proxy (always-on, fixed port)
| forwards locally
v
:6768 managed Python backend (headroom + rtk pipeline)
| optimizes request/response, then calls the real API
v
api.anthropic.com / api.openai.com
```
- **:6767** is the fixed intercept port. Clients are poExcerpt of 18,299 characters
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matched fp:4e9a2b8c8c3e75e7, llm:Repository topics: ai, anthropic, claude-code, codex, llm, prompt-compression, token-optimization, openai, proxy, developer-tools, macos, menu-bar-app, tauri, rust, typescript, react; description: 'Unlock 2x more Claude Code and Codex usage' — indicates an app that optimizes LLM token usage and acts as a proxy/tool for LLMs.
matched fp:4e9a2b8c8c3e75e7, llm:Repository topics: ai, anthropic, claude-code, codex, llm, prompt-compression, token-optimization, openai, proxy, developer-tools, macos, menu-bar-app, tauri, rust, typescript, react; description: 'Unlock 2x more Claude Code and Codex usage' — indicates an app that optimizes LLM token usage and acts as a proxy/tool for LLMs.