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headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Breakoutrank #14

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.

73.9k+6.4k · 7d 5.7k 176est. Apache-2.0Pythonpushed 23h ago
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Composite

77

conf 65%

Momentum

83

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

79

conf 67%

Community

49

conf 60%

Security & maint.

89

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

75

conf 60%

Opportunity

71

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

83%

conf 71%

Executive summary

headroom is currently classified as breakout with a composite score of 77/100. Momentum (83) and vitality (79) diverge — attention is running ahead of maintenance depth. Estimated 7-day gain of 6,364 stars against a 73.9k-star base. Risk is assessed as low; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 83%.

Analyst note

AI-drafted · numbers from tracked data

The momentum-vs-vitality relationship suggests that a project with high momentum (83/100) and vital importance (79/100) is likely to experience significant growth, but its long-term sustainability depends on the vitality of its user base. A higher vitality score indicates a larger and more dedicated user following, which could offset some of the risks associated with rapid growth.

90-day trajectory

+24.2k · 30d
2026-07-012026-09-28

Score breakdown

Every input, weight and normalized value — nothing hidden. Inputs marked est. are estimated until the full ingestion pipeline lands.

Momentum

Star velocityest.25%100
Star accelerationest.15%56
Fork velocityest.10%100
Contributor growthest.10%89
Issue activity growthest.10%58
PR activity growthest.10%82
External mention velocityest.10%85
Release event impactest.5%89
Trending-rank persistenceest.5%82

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 100%

Project Vitality Index

Commit consistency20%97
Release cadenceest.15%94
PR responsivenessest.15%88
Issue responsivenessest.15%50
Contributor diversityest.10%83
Maintainer continuityest.10%43
Documentation qualityest.5%73
Dependency freshnessest.5%78
Security hygieneest.5%81

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 67% · coverage 100%

Security & maintenance

Release recency25%98
License clarity20%92
Maintenance status25%97
Dependency stalenessest.15%55
Bus factorest.15%91

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 85% · coverage 100%

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%91
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%71
Documentation citationsest.15%36
Contributor overlapest.15%70
Registry adoptionest.10%76
Topic centralityest.10%100

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 92% · missing: packageRegistryAdoption