Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
Densilo, a local proxy for smaller AI coding requests
Densilo routes AI coding traffic through a local proxy that claims to compress repetitive context before it reaches the model.
- For
- Developers using AI coding tools with large recurring context
- Worth noticing
- The page distinguishes byte-exact data compression from opt-in, handle-based code expansion.
Field notes
Densilo describes a loopback proxy that sits between a desktop coding tool and its model provider, with a macOS menu-bar app and a one-command installer shown on the homepage. Its claimed safeguards are unusually specific: byte-exact handling for ordinary data, optional code elision with handles for exact expansion, no request-body logging, and aggregated counters rather than content sent for billing. The page presents these as product behavior, not independently demonstrated results.
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