headroom-litellm-proxy

headroom-litellm-proxy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,492 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

An installation and service setup guide for Headroom, a local proxy that reduces the amount of conversation context sent to an AI model. It passes requests through LiteLLM to Claude on Vertex AI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Headroom, run it as a user service, and connect OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible clients through the proxy chain.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated context before requests reach the model and provides a local endpoint that compatible applications can use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rhtevan/agentfs/headroom-litellm-proxy
Any agent
npx skills add rhtevan/agentfs --skill headroom-litellm-proxy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.02492
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01246
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00249

Measured 6d ago against content hash 29ea3b4cfcf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

headroom-litellm-proxy scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- `uv` package manager installed (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`)

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `uv` package manager installed (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`)
skills/headroom-litellm-proxy/SKILL.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Headroom Proxy — Installation & Systemd Setup

Install the Headroom context-optimization proxy and run it as a systemd user-scope service, chained to a local LiteLLM proxy for upstream LLM access.

Traffic Chain

Any OpenAI-compatible client → Headroom Proxy (:8787) → LiteLLM (:4000) → Vertex AI (Claude)
                                 ↑ context compression        ↑ model routing

Headroom exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints (/v1/chat/completions) and Anthropic-compatible endpoints (/v1/messages), so any client that speaks either protocol can use it.

Prerequisites

  • LiteLLM proxy running locally on port 4000 (see skill litellm-vertex-ai-proxy to set one up; verify with litellm-proxy-status skill)
  • uv package manager installed (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh)

Workflow

Step 1 — Install Headroom

Install Headroom using uv:

uv tool install 'headroom-ai[proxy]'

Verify:

headroom --version
headroom proxy --help

If uv is not installed:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Step 2 — Create the Headroom Systemd Service

File: ~/.config/systemd/user/headroom-proxy.service

[Unit]
Description=Headroom Proxy - Context optimization layer for LLM traffic
After=litellm-proxy.service
Wants=litellm-proxy.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/<USER>/.local/bin/headroom proxy \
  --host 127.0.0.1 \
  --port 8787 \
  --openai-api-url http://localhost:4000 \
  --no-ccr-inject-tool \
  --no-ccr-marker \
  --no-telemetry \
  --no-rate-limit \
  --request-timeout-seconds 600 \
  --mode token \
  --target-ratio 0.5 \
  --intercept-tool-results
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
Environment=OPENAI_TARGET_API_URL=http://localhost:4000
Environment=HEADROOM_TELEMETRY=off

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Replace <USER> with your username.

Key Service Flags Explained
Flag Purpose
--openai-api-url http://localhost:4000 Route upstream traffic to LiteLLM
--no-ccr-inject-tool Don't inject CCR retrieve tool (downstream clients can't resolve it)
--no-ccr-marker Don't add CCR markers to compressed content
--no-telemetry Disable anonymous telemetry
--no-rate-limit Disable rate limiting (local use)
--mode token Prioritize token compression savings
--target-ratio 0.5 Kompress compression target — keep ~50% of tokens in compressed turns (lower = more aggressive)
--intercept-tool-results Compress stale tool result blocks (file reads, shell output, etc.)
--request-timeout-seconds 600 10-minute timeout for long-running requests

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 283 lines · 21 tokens per session scan C 29ea3b4cfcf8

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headroom-litellm-proxy is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,492 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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