thevibeworks/cctrace

cctrace is a tool that lets you watch exactly what your AI coding assistant is sending and receiving behind the scenes. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Grok, and Kimi Code, and it shows you every network request those tools make in a live browser window while you use them normally. The reason this exists is that modern coding agents like Claude Code now ship as compiled programs rather than plain JavaScript, which broke older tracing tools that worked by hooking into the code directly. Instead, cctrace sits between your agent and the internet as a local proxy that decrypts and reads the encrypted traffic for the services it is watching, using a security certificate it generates on your own machine. Any traffic to services it is not specifically watching, like downloading packages from npm or GitHub, passes through untouched without being read. What you get is a browser dashboard that shows every request your agent makes, including ones other tools miss, like login and usage or billing information, not just the main chat messages. It reconstructs full conversation sessions, including branching subagent tasks and model switches, and lets you replay a past session step by step. Every session is also saved to a file on your computer that you can reopen later, and sensitive information like passwords and API keys is automatically hidden before anything is saved to disk. To use it you need Bun, a JavaScript runtime, plus the openssl command line tool and whichever AI coding CLI you want to trace already installed. You install cctrace itself with a single command, then run it before your normal coding agent command, for example typing cctrace instead of claude, and a browser tab opens automatically showing the live traffic. Nothing about how it works involves any cloud service or account, everything stays on your own computer.