[SnowLprd]

This smells heavily of astroturfing. Particularly because Headroom is a paid product, and that fact is not mentioned here or in the GitHub README.

Here was my experience…

I download and run the Mac application, which starts installing a bunch of things. Then the following happens without advance notice:

- Adds background item(s) from "Idiosyncratocracy BV"

- Downloads over 2 GB of files

- Pollutes home with ~/.headroom directory

- Adds hook(s) to ~/.claude/hooks/

- Modifies your ~/.claude/settings.json to add above hook(s)

… and then I see something in the settings that talks about creating an account. That's when I realized that this is a paid product, after all of the above has happened.

Headroom seems to use https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk under the hood. What does Headroom offer over the actually-free RTK? Who knows.

At this point I have had it with this subterfuge — I immediately trash the app and every related file and folder I can find, of which there are many. Hopefully I got them all, but who knows. There should have been an easy way to uninstall this mess, but of course there isn't.

The lack of transparency here is really concerning.

[gghootch]

Thanks for the feedback, will work on making this more transparent so future users do not have this experience.

I did want to call out that headroom is not based on RTK - it includes RTK sure, but headroom cli has a lot more going on under the hood. For more see https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

[shapeling]

I installed Headroom to give it a try, quickly decided to uninstall when I realized how invasive it is and requires a subscription. Spent the next few hours having issues with CC where it was asking for permission on every command. It was using absolute paths for all commands - turns out it was running into `zsh: command not found: rtk`. To fully uninstall I had to:

- Remove hook from `~/.claude/settings.local.json

- rm -rf ~/.headroom

- rm ~/.claude/hooks/headroom-rtk-rewrite.sh

- launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/Headroom.plist

- rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/Headroom.plist

- rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.extraheadroom.headroom*

- rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.extraheadroom.headroom

[gghootch]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. We incorporated changes in the latest version to improve this:

1. On install we explain what Headroom installs 2. We added an uninstall feature that removes all of this for you 3. On quit of the app, we immediately remove all items that may intervene with normal Claude Code behavior