shim-cli
See what your coding agent sends. Mask what you can.
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An open-source hook and local proxy for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code. In Claude Code it masks secrets and personal data in tool results before the model reads them, and shim watch shows what a session sent and cost. No account, no telemetry.
PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 191 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Privacy
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a local HTTP proxy server and CLI hook that inspects outgoing API payloads, redacts sensitive text patterns with regex, and logs metrics to the terminal.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 432 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 433 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- sctxx · github · 2026-09-10 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- CC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-12 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claudescope · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending · hn · 2026-01-28 · 218 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Coding Wrapped · ph · 2026-10-31 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CLI Manager · ph · 2026-10-13 · 92 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Horadric · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DockTerm · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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