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+#!/lsiopy/bin/python3
+"""Run Headroom MCP with compression delegated to the single proxy backend.
+
+Upstream Headroom MCP normally performs ``headroom_compress`` in its own
+process. That imports the compression pipeline and can load a second copy of the
+Kompress ONNX model in addition to the HTTP proxy. This adapter preserves the
+upstream MCP protocol and retrieve/stats implementations, but replaces only its
+local compression method with a call to the proxy's loopback-only
+``/v1/compress`` endpoint.
+
+The proxy gate starts the heavy backend on this first request and later unloads
+it after the configured idle timeout. The MCP process therefore remains a
+lightweight protocol bridge and never imports ``headroom.compress``.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+from types import MethodType
+from typing import Any
+
+
+def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Headroom MCP single-runtime adapter")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--proxy-url",
+        default=os.environ.get("HEADROOM_PROXY_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:8787"),
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--transport", default="stdio")
+    parser.add_argument("--host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8788)
+    parser.add_argument("--path", default="/mcp")
+    parser.add_argument("--debug", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--direct", action="store_true")
+    args, unknown = parser.parse_known_args()
+    if unknown:
+        print(f"headroom-mcp-proxy: ignoring unsupported arguments: {unknown}", file=sys.stderr)
+    if args.transport.lower() != "stdio":
+        parser.error("only stdio transport is supported by the add-on adapter")
+    return args
+
+
+def _number(data: dict[str, Any], key: str) -> int:
+    value = data.get(key, 0)
+    try:
+        return int(value)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return 0
+
+
+def make_proxy_compressor(proxy_url: str):
+    endpoint = f"{proxy_url.rstrip('/')}/v1/compress"
+    model = os.environ.get("HEADROOM_MCP_MODEL", "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929")
+
+    def compress_via_proxy(_self, content: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        # Imported here, not at module import, so MCP startup stays small. httpx is
+        # already a dependency of Headroom's MCP server for retrieve/stats.
+        import httpx
+
+        response = httpx.post(
+            endpoint,
+            json={
+                "messages": [{"role": "tool", "content": content}],
+                "model": model,
+            },
+            timeout=httpx.Timeout(180.0, connect=75.0),
+        )
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        data = response.json()
+        if not isinstance(data, dict):
+            raise RuntimeError("Headroom proxy returned a non-object compression response")
+
+        messages = data.get("messages")
+        compressed: Any = content
+        if isinstance(messages, list) and messages:
+            last = messages[-1]
+            if isinstance(last, dict) and "content" in last:
+                compressed = last["content"]
+        if not isinstance(compressed, str):
+            compressed = json.dumps(compressed, ensure_ascii=False)
+
+        hashes = data.get("ccr_hashes")
+        hash_key = next((item for item in hashes if isinstance(item, str)), None) if isinstance(hashes, list) else None
+        before = _number(data, "tokens_before")
+        after = _number(data, "tokens_after")
+        saved = _number(data, "tokens_saved")
+        if saved <= 0:
+            saved = max(0, before - after)
+        savings_percent = round(saved / before * 100, 1) if before > 0 else 0.0
+        transforms = data.get("transforms_applied")
+        if not isinstance(transforms, list):
+            transforms = []
+
+        note = "Compression was executed by the shared Headroom proxy runtime."
+        if hash_key:
+            note += (
+                f" Original stored with hash={hash_key}. "
+                "Use mcp__headroom__headroom_retrieve to recover it."
+            )
+        return {
+            "compressed": compressed,
+            "hash": hash_key,
+            "original_tokens": before,
+            "compressed_tokens": after,
+            "tokens_saved": saved,
+            "savings_percent": savings_percent,
+            "transforms": transforms,
+            "note": note,
+        }
+
+    return compress_via_proxy
+
+
+async def run() -> None:
+    args = parse_args()
+
+    # Defense in depth. The adapter never calls the local compressor, but keep
+    # the MCP process explicitly unable to initialize Kompress if upstream code
+    # changes or an unrelated import probes the compression pipeline.
+    os.environ.pop("HF_HOME", None)
+    os.environ["HEADROOM_DISABLE_KOMPRESS"] = "1"
+    os.environ["HEADROOM_PROXY_URL"] = args.proxy_url
+
+    from headroom.ccr.mcp_server import HeadroomMCPServer
+
+    server = HeadroomMCPServer(proxy_url=args.proxy_url, check_proxy=True)
+    server._compress_content = MethodType(make_proxy_compressor(args.proxy_url), server)
+    try:
+        await server.run_stdio()
+    finally:
+        await server.cleanup()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        asyncio.run(run())
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass