headroom vs fava-trails
headroom: Headroom compresses everything your AI agent reads — tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, files, and conversation history — before it reaches the LLM. It achieves the same answers with a fraction of the tokens.; fava-trails: FAVA Trails is a Git-native system providing a versioned audit trail and curated memory for AI agents, storing thoughts, decisions, and observations as markdown files in a controlled Git repository. It ensures crash-proof persistence, full lineage tracking, and integrates with LLMs for trust gate verification and context engineering through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
TL;DR
- Long tool output, logs, JSON responses or RAG chunks are driving up cost or hurting answers.
- You want compression without code changes: run it as a local proxy, an MCP server, or by wrapping Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
- Compression must run locally, with originals cached so the model can retrieve the full text.
- Your agent's problem is missing or outdated docs, not too much context: a docs server fits better.
- You cannot add a component that must keep running and may add latency.
- Your tasks cannot tolerate lossy compression: verify answer quality on your own work first.
Persistent and versioned storage for AI agent thoughts, decisions, and observations.
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