https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom is an amazing tool to reduce input and output token usage.
But it only works natively for CLI apps, for desktop apps like Codex you need to manually run headroom proxy --port 8787.
Would it be possible to integrate headroom into the menubar (start if not already running), so the user doesn't forget and need an open terminal before opening the desktop assistant?
# Install
uv python install 3.14
uv tool install "headroom-ai[all]"
# .zshenv / .bash_profile
export HEADROOM_EMBEDDER_RUNTIME=pytorch_mps # macOS only
export HEADROOM_OUTPUT_SHAPER=1
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8787 # Claude Code
export OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1 # Codex / OpenAI
# Run proxy before desktop app (blocking)
headroom proxy --port 8787
# Open desktop app
open -a Claude
open -a Codex
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom is an amazing tool to reduce input and output token usage.
But it only works natively for CLI apps, for desktop apps like Codex you need to manually run
headroom proxy --port 8787.Would it be possible to integrate headroom into the menubar (start if not already running), so the user doesn't forget and need an open terminal before opening the desktop assistant?