{"categories":[{"label":"Testing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-testing/5"},{"label":"Debuggers","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-debuggers"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"claude-tap is a local proxy and trace viewer that captures and displays API traffic from AI coding agents, letting you inspect system prompts, messages, tool calls, and token usage without sending traces to a hosted service.","skillfed_tags":["ai-agent-debugging","api-tracing","llm-observability"],"use_cases":["Debug why a Claude Code agent made a particular tool call by comparing the system prompt and messages sent in that request versus the previous one.","Inspect token usage and streaming response reconstruction for a Cursor or Codex session to understand cost and latency.","Export and archive a trace of an agent run as a portable HTML file for code review or incident analysis.","Verify that a custom Claude Code upstream (DeepSeek, local proxy, etc.) is receiving the correct prompts and tool definitions.","Compare how different agent CLIs (Kimi, Gemini, Grok) structure their API calls and context for the same task."],"what_it_does":"claude-tap is a local reverse and forward proxy that intercepts HTTP traffic from AI coding agents and displays it in a web-based trace viewer. It works with a wide range of agent CLIs\u2014Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Cursor, and others\u2014capturing the raw API requests and responses without requiring a hosted dashboard. You run your agent through claude-tap instead of directly, and it records system prompts, conversation history, tool schemas, tool calls, streaming responses, and token counts.\n\nThe tool is designed for developers who want to understand or debug agent behavior by seeing exactly what context and instructions the agent is working with, and how that context changes between turns. Traces stay on your machine by default, with sensitive auth headers redacted. Each run can be exported as a self-contained HTML file for review or archiving, and the same workflow works across multiple different agent clients.","worth_installing":"Yes. claude-tap fills a real need for developers working with AI agents: it provides local, privacy-preserving visibility into agent-API traffic without requiring hosted infrastructure or code changes to the agent itself. Low install friction, active maintenance, no known vulnerabilities, and broad client support make it a practical debugging tool. Install it if you regularly work with Claude Code, Cursor, or other traced agents and want to understand their behavior."},"id":"claude-tap","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/claude-tap","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/claude-tap.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/claude-tap/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-08-14","license_spdx":"MIT","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"claude-tap","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Trace AI CLI API requests via local reverse and forward proxies. Inspect system prompts, messages, tools, and token usage."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":118413,"position":12120,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.1.144"}