Is billion-context free?

Check its license. It has its own license: read it before using it for work.

Is billion-context still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v0.1.213, 4 days ago.

Can I trust billion-context?

Some track record. 6.6k stars, 3 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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How to install billion-context on Linux (ranxianglei/billion-context) · gitmanual

How to install on Linux

ranxianglei/billion-context

A context-compression plugin for month-long single sessions (billions of tokens) ,small context windows (a 100K context is enough) and token savings (5x fewer tokens) .上下文压缩插件，月级长会话会话，兼顾小窗口(100k上下文足矣)省token(省5倍token) . billion-context is all you need

Node.js

Before you start

Is it free?: Check its licenseIt has its own license: read it before using it for work.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v0.1.213, 4 days ago.
Can I trust it?: Some track record6.6k stars, 3 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 6,624
Activity: Updated this month

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Will it work on Linux?

Yes, it installs on your Linux

The README gives a npm install for Linux.

Your system

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Start here

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs MySQL.

Install with a package manager

npm

npm install -g billion-context --prefix=~/.local

npm

npm install -g billion-context

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js >=20runtime
1×npm package manager
1×MySQL service

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: node:24-slim).
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: advisories/package.json, kernel/package.json, pi-subagents/package.json, release-notes/package.json

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package.json scripts (16)

buildnpm --prefix kernel run build && npm --prefix pi-subagents run build && tsup && node scripts/write-build-info.mjs && node scripts/check-dist-import-annotations.mjs && node scripts/check-dist-external.mjs
preparenode scripts/check-dist-ready.mjs
registry:snapshotnode scripts/update-registry-snapshot.mjs
codex-models:snapshotnode scripts/update-codex-models-snapshot.mjs
pretypechecknpm --prefix kernel run build && npm --prefix pi-subagents run build
typechecktsc --noEmit --project tsconfig.json
check:unused-exportsnode scripts/check-unused-exports.mjs
check:test-import-graphnode scripts/check-test-import-graph.mjs
check:dist-thinnode scripts/check-dist-thin-install.mjs
pretestnode scripts/test-suite-lock.mjs gate && node scripts/ci-pretest-cache.mjs
testnode scripts/test-suite-lock.mjs run
startnode dist/index.js
test:e2enode --import ./tests/preload-test-env.mjs --import tsx --test tests/e2e/e2e-codex.test.ts
test:e2e:fakenode --import ./tests/preload-test-env.mjs --import tsx --test tests/e2e/e2e-codex-fake.test.ts
test:e2e:imagenode --import ./tests/preload-test-env.mjs --import tsx --test tests/e2e/e2e-image-billing.test.ts
gate:localnode scripts/release-gate-local.mjs

Files we read (9)

.github/workflows/announcements-lint.yml

.github/workflows/ci-e2e-codex-persona.yml

.github/workflows/ci-e2e-dsh-native.yml

.github/workflows/ci-e2e-dsh.yml

.github/workflows/ci-e2e-fake.yml

.github/workflows/ci-e2e-native-opencode.yml

Dockerfile

README.md

package.json

2,267 files in the repo