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.