headroom-proxy-status

headroom-proxy-status is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A status-checking guide for Headroom, a local proxy that shortens the context sent to an AI model. It checks whether the proxy is running, ready, configured, and saving tokens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the system service, health endpoint, compression results, token savings, and cost statistics.
Why use it?
It gives you a quick way to find out whether the service is healthy and how much context reduction and cost saving it has achieved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00018 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00118

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0f442c40702e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

headroom-proxy-status 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 4d 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.

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8787/health | python3 -m json.tool

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8787/health | python3 -m json.tool
skills/headroom-proxy-status/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Headroom Proxy Status Check

Check the health, configuration, and runtime status of the local Headroom context-optimization proxy.

Steps

  1. Check systemd service status

    systemctl --user status headroom-proxy
    

    Confirm it shows active (running). Note uptime, memory usage, and PID.

  2. Check health endpoint

    curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8787/health | python3 -m json.tool
    

    Verify status is healthy and ready is true. Note the backend, optimization mode, and whether memory/learning are enabled.

  3. Check compression stats

    curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8787/stats | python3 -m json.tool
    

    Report the summary: total API requests, compression percentage, tokens saved, cost savings, and the primary model in use.

    Key fields to extract from the stats response:

    • summary.compression.requests_compressed — how many requests had compression applied
    • summary.compression.avg_compression_pct — average compression percentage
    • summary.compression.total_tokens_removed — total tokens saved by compression
    • summary.cost.total_saved_usd — dollar savings
    • summary.cost.savings_pct — savings percentage
    • config.target_ratio — the configured compression target (e.g. 0.5 = keep ~50%)
    • config.min_tokens_to_crush — minimum token threshold before compression kicks in
    • config.force_kompress — whether Kompress is forced on all content
    • summary.uncompressed_requests — breakdown of why requests were NOT compressed (e.g. prefix_frozen, no_compressible_content)
  4. Check stats history (optional, for trend data)

    curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8787/stats-history | python3 -m json.tool
    

    Show durable compression history if available.

  5. Show service configuration

    cat ~/.config/systemd/user/headroom-proxy.service
    

    Display the systemd unit including upstream URL, flags, and startup command.

  6. Show Goose custom provider configuration

    cat ~/.config/goose/custom_providers/custom_headroom.json
    

    Display the Goose provider definition (base URL, models, settings).

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 4d ago First seen · 136 lines · 18 tokens per session scan C 0f442c40702e

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headroom-proxy-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,184 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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