@mattpocockuk: Turns out it's trivial to build, and it's sent me on a quest to remove the INSANE amount of bloat in CC's system prompt
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Matt Pocock discovers it's trivial to build a proxy for reading raw system prompts sent to Anthropic from Claude Code, and he's now working to remove bloat in the system prompt.
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Turns out it’s trivial to build, and it’s sent me on a quest to remove the INSANE amount of bloat in CC’s system prompt
Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk): Are there any good tools for proxying around Claude Code for reading the raw stuff that gets sent to Anthropic?
Bonus points if it’s harness-agnostic, i.e. works with Codex too
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