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Name: llm-interceptor
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Summary: Intercept and analyze LLM traffic from AI coding tools
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License: MIT
Keywords: agent,ai,debugging,inspect,intercept,llm,mitmproxy,observe,proxy,trace
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# LLM Interceptor (LLI)

<p align="center">
  <strong>🔍 Proxy-layer microscope for LLM traffic analysis</strong>
</p>

<p align="center">
  A cross-platform command-line tool that intercepts, analyzes, and logs communications between AI coding tools/agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) and their backend LLM APIs.
</p>

---

![LLI Web UI](lli-ui-screenshot.png)

## ✨ Features

- **Watch Mode** - Interactive continuous capture with session management
- **One-Shot Capture (`lli run`)** - Wrap any command (`claude -p`, `codex exec`, ...) with fully automated, non-interactive capture — ideal for scripted agent experiments
- **Transparent Inspection** - See exactly what prompts are sent and what responses are received
- **Streaming Support** - Captures both streaming (SSE) and non-streaming API responses
- **Multi-Provider** - Works with Anthropic, OpenAI (Chat Completions and Responses API), Google, Groq, Together, Mistral, and more
- **Automatic Masking** - Protects API keys and sensitive data in logs
- **Auto Processing** - Automatically merges and splits session data
- **Cross-Platform** - Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux



## 📦 Installation

### For AI coding agents (install the agent skill first)

> **If you are an AI agent** (OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ...) reading
> this README: install the bundled agent skill first. It teaches you how to
> capture traffic with `lli run` and analyze existing `traces/` directories
> (token usage, latency, tool calls, prompts) — including bootstrapping lli
> itself when it is not installed yet.

```bash
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor
```

This uses the open [`skills`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) CLI and
works with 70+ agents. Non-interactive examples:

```bash
# Install for OpenCode into the current project
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor --skill lli-trace-analysis -a opencode -y

# Install globally for Claude Code
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor --skill lli-trace-analysis -a claude-code -g -y
```

See [Agent Skill](#-agent-skill-let-your-coding-agent-analyze-traces) for what
the skill covers. The human-oriented CLI installation continues below.

### Using uv (recommended)

```bash
uv tool install llm-interceptor
```

### Using pip

```bash
pip install llm-interceptor
```

### From source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/chouzz/llm-interceptor.git
cd llm-interceptor
uv sync --dev
uv run lli-dev-setup
```

### Development setup

Git does not copy hooks from `.git/hooks` when you clone a repository, so each
new clone must install the project's `pre-commit` hook once:

```bash
uv sync --dev
uv run lli-dev-setup
```

If you prefer `pip`:

```bash
pip install -e .[dev]
lli-dev-setup
```

## 🚀 Quick Start

> **Scripting or agent experiments?** You can skip this interactive workflow
> entirely — see [Automated Capture: `lli run`](#-automated-capture-lli-run)
> to capture `claude -p "..."`-style commands with zero interaction.

### 1. Install Certificate (For HTTPS Capture Only)

If you're only capturing HTTP traffic, you can skip this step. Only install the certificate if you need to capture HTTPS requests.

```bash
# Generate certificate
lli watch &
sleep 2
kill %1
```

Then install the certificate:

**macOS:**
```bash
open ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem
# Double-click to add to Keychain
# In Keychain Access, find "mitmproxy" → Double-click → Trust → "Always Trust"
```

**Linux (Ubuntu/Debian):**
```bash
sudo cp ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/mitmproxy.crt
sudo update-ca-certificates
```

**Windows:**
Navigate to `%USERPROFILE%\.mitmproxy\`. Double-click `mitmproxy-ca-cert.p12` (or `mitmproxy-ca-cert.cer`) to open the certificate import wizard → Install Certificate → Local Machine → place in **Trusted Root Certification Authorities** → Finish.

### 2. Start Watch Mode and Record Sessions

```bash
lli watch
```

If you need to capture traffic to a **custom or self-hosted API** , use `--include` with a glob pattern, for example:

```bash
lli watch --include "*api.example.com*"
```

In watch mode:
- **Press Enter** to start recording a session
- **Press Enter** again to stop recording and automatically process the session
- **Press Esc** while recording to cancel the current session (no output generated)
- **Ctrl+C** to exit watch mode

### 3. Configure Your Application and Start Dialogue (New Terminal)

```bash
export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:9090
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:9090
export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem
# Optional: bypass proxy for some hosts (e.g. localhost). Configure in lli.toml as no_proxy or run: lli config --proxy-help

# Run Claude and start your conversation
claude
# Now start your dialogue - all prompts and responses will be captured
```

### 4. (Optional) Corporate network: upstream CA certificate

If you capture traffic **behind a corporate proxy** or on a network where upstream servers use a **company-signed certificate**, you may see TLS errors because the proxy only trusts the system CAs, not your company’s CA. Configure the **upstream** trust CA so LLI (mitmproxy) can verify connections to the corporate proxy or target hosts:

- **Client → LLI:** Your app must trust the **mitmproxy CA** (install `~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem` as in step 1).
- **LLI → upstream (corporate proxy / target):** LLI must trust the **company CA**. Set the path to your company’s root or intermediate CA (PEM file):

```bash
# Option A: CLI
lli watch --upstream-ca-cert /path/to/corporate-ca.pem

```

Use `lli config --show` to confirm the upstream CA path. If the file does not exist at startup, LLI will exit with an error.

### 5. Visualize with Web UI

The web interface should be launched in http://127.0.0.1:48080 to analyze captured conversations:

In the UI, you can:
- Browse captured sessions in the sidebar
- View conversation flow between requests and responses
- Inspect detailed API payloads and metadata
- Search and filter through captured data
- Copy formatted content for further analysis

> **Tip:** prefer a permanent UI? Run `lli serve` once and keep it running —
> it shows sessions from both `lli watch` and `lli run` and picks up new ones
> automatically (see [Automated Capture](#-automated-capture-lli-run)).



## 🤖 Automated Capture: `lli run`

For scripting and agent experiments you can skip watch mode entirely. `lli run`
wraps a single command with a private ephemeral proxy and captures its LLM
traffic end-to-end — **no keypresses, no env setup, no manual merge**:

```bash
lli run -- claude -p "fix the failing test"

lli run --label codex -- codex exec "review src/"
```

How it works:

1. Starts a throwaway proxy on a random loopback port (nothing else on your
   machine is affected)
2. Spawns the command with `HTTP(S)_PROXY` and CA trust (`NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS`,
   `SSL_CERT_FILE`, `REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE`) already injected — Claude Code,
   Codex, and curl work out of the box
3. When the command exits, waits for in-flight streaming responses to drain,
   then automatically processes the session (merge + split into per-exchange
   request/response JSON) and writes `run_meta.json`
4. Exits with the command's own exit code, so it composes with scripts and CI

Each run's session lands directly in the traces directory alongside
watch-mode sessions (microsecond IDs keep concurrent runs collision-free),
so it shows up in the web UI automatically:

```
traces/
├── all_captured_20260101_120000_123456.jsonl   # raw records for this run (replayable)
└── session_20260101_120000_123456/             # this run's session
    ├── session_meta.json
    ├── run_meta.json                           # command, label, exit code, duration, ...
    ├── 001_request_2026-01-01_12-00-00.json
    ├── 001_response_2026-01-01_12-00-00.json
    └── ...
```

`--label` is recorded in `run_meta.json` (not in directory names), so run
sessions are easy to find programmatically:

```bash
ls traces/session_*/run_meta.json
```

This makes it easy to batch-analyze how different agents (Claude Code, Codex,
...) solve the same tasks — every exchange, tool call, and token count lands
in plain JSON files ready for scripting:

```bash
for task in "fix the login bug" "add dark mode" "write tests for api.py"; do
  lli run --label "claude-$task" -- claude -p "$task"
done
# Then inspect traces/session_*/00N_{request,response}_*.json
# (run sessions are the ones containing run_meta.json)
```

> **Note:** the mitmproxy CA file (`~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem`) must
> exist — it is generated the first time any LLI proxy starts. System-wide
> certificate installation (Quick Start step 1) is **not** required for
> `lli run`, since CA trust is injected into the child process directly.

See [`lli run` CLI reference](#lli-run) for all options (`--label`,
`--output-dir`, `--include`, `--exclude`, `--drain-timeout`).

## 🤖 Agent Skill: Let Your Coding Agent Analyze Traces

This repo ships an agent skill at [`.agents/skills/lli-trace-analysis/`](.agents/skills/lli-trace-analysis/)
that teaches coding agents (OpenCode, and any tool that reads the
`.agents/skills` convention) to work with LLI captures:

- summarize sessions (models, normalized token usage incl. cache, latency, tool calls, failed/orphan requests) via the bundled zero-dependency `lli_report.py`
- look up exact JSON field paths per capture format (Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses) with ready-made jq snippets
- set up lli and run capture experiments (`lli run`) even when lli is not installed yet

OpenCode discovers it automatically when you work inside this repository. To
install it into any other project (or globally), use the open
[`skills`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) CLI:

```bash
# Interactive: pick agents and scope (project or global)
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor

# Non-interactive: current project, OpenCode only
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor --skill lli-trace-analysis -a opencode -y

# Global install for Claude Code (available across all projects)
npx skills add chouzz/llm-interceptor --skill lli-trace-analysis -a claude-code -g -y

# Direct link to the skill inside this repo
npx skills add https://github.com/chouzz/llm-interceptor/tree/main/.agents/skills/lli-trace-analysis
```

Once installed, just ask your agent to e.g. *"summarize token usage in
`traces/`"* or *"run `lli run -- claude -p "..."` and analyze the capture"* —
the skill handles the rest (including installing lli if needed). Alternatively,
copy the [`.agents/skills/lli-trace-analysis/`](.agents/skills/lli-trace-analysis/)
directory into your project's `.agents/skills/` manually.

## 🎬 How Watch Mode Works

Watch mode uses a state machine with three states:

| State | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| **IDLE** | Monitoring traffic, waiting for you to start a session |
| **RECORDING** | Capturing traffic with session ID injection |
| **PROCESSING** | Auto-extracting, merging, and splitting session data |

### Example Session

```
$ lli watch

╭─────────────────────────╮
│   LLI Watch Mode        │
│ Continuous Capture      │
╰─────────────────────────╯

  Proxy Port:    9090
  Output Dir:    ./traces (or OS-specific logs directory)
  Global Log:    traces/all_captured_20251203_220000.jsonl

Configure your application:
  export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:9090
  export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:9090
  export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem

● [IDLE] Monitoring on :9090... Logging to all_captured_20251203_220000.jsonl
  Press [Enter] to START Session 1
<Enter>

◉ [REC] Session 01_session_20251203_223010 is recording...
  Press [Enter] to STOP & PROCESS, [Esc] to CANCEL
<Enter>

⏳ [BUSY] Processing Session 01_session_20251203_223010...
  ✔ Saved to traces/01_session_20251203_223010/

● [IDLE] Monitoring on :9090... Logging to all_captured_20251203_220000.jsonl
  Press [Enter] to START Session 2
```

### Output Structure

```text
./traces/                                    # Root output directory
├── all_captured_20251203_220000.jsonl       # Global log (all traffic)
│
├── 01_session_20251203_223010/              # Session 01 folder
│   ├── raw.jsonl                            # Clean session data
│   ├── merged.jsonl                         # Merged conversations
│   └── split_output/                        # Individual files
│       ├── 001_request_2025-12-03_22-30-10.json
│       └── 001_response_2025-12-03_22-30-10.json
│
├── 02_session_20251203_224500/              # Session 02 folder
└── ...
```

## 📋 CLI Reference

### `lli watch`

Start watch mode for continuous session capture (recommended).

```bash
lli watch [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --port INTEGER           Proxy server port (default: 9090)
  -o, --output-dir, --log-dir PATH  Root output directory (default: ./traces or OS log dir)
  -i, --include TEXT           Additional URL patterns to include (glob pattern)
  --upstream-ca-cert PATH      Path to PEM or CA bundle for trusting upstream (e.g. corporate proxy) certificates
  --debug                  Enable debug mode with verbose logging
```

**Examples:**

```bash
# Basic watch mode
lli watch

# Custom port and output directory
lli watch --port 8888 --output-dir ./my_traces

# Include custom API endpoint (glob pattern)
lli watch --include "*my-custom-api.com*"

# Corporate network: trust company CA so upstream TLS (proxy/target) is verified
lli watch --upstream-ca-cert /path/to/corporate-ca.pem

# Match all subdomains of a domain
lli watch --include "*api.example.com*"
```

**Glob Pattern Syntax:**

| Pattern | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `*` | Matches any characters |
| `?` | Matches a single character |
| `[seq]` | Matches any character in seq |
| `[!seq]` | Matches any character not in seq |

### `lli config`

Display configuration and setup help.

```bash
lli config --cert-help    # Certificate installation instructions
lli config --proxy-help   # Proxy configuration instructions
lli config --show         # Show current configuration
```

### `lli run`

Run a command with automatic, fully non-interactive LLM traffic capture —
ideal for scripted agent experiments (`claude -p`, `codex exec`, ...).

`lli run` starts a private ephemeral proxy, spawns the command with
`HTTP(S)_PROXY` / CA environment variables injected, and when the command
exits it drains in-flight responses, processes the session (merge + split
into per-exchange request/response JSON files), and writes run metadata.
`lli` exits with the command's exit code, so it can be composed in scripts
and CI.

```bash
lli run -- claude -p "fix the failing test"

lli run --label codex -- codex exec "review src/"

# Custom provider + output location
lli run --include "*my-llm.example.com*" --output-dir ./experiments -- curl -s https://api.example.com/health
```

Each run's session is created directly in the traces directory alongside
watch-mode sessions (microsecond IDs keep concurrent runs collision-free),
and `run_meta.json` inside it records the command, label, exit code, and
duration:

```
traces/session_20260101_120000_123456/
├── session_meta.json
├── run_meta.json              # command, label, exit code, duration, ...
├── all_captured_*.jsonl       # raw captured records (replayable, at traces root)
├── 001_request_2026-01-01_12-00-00.json
├── 001_response_2026-01-01_12-00-00.json
└── ...
```

Notes:

- The mitmproxy CA certificate (`~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem`) is
  exported to the child via `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` / `SSL_CERT_FILE` /
  `REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE`, so Node- and OpenSSL-based agents work out of the box.
- After the command exits, LLI waits up to `--drain-timeout` (default 15s)
  for in-flight streaming responses to complete before finalizing.

### `lli serve`

Start the web UI as a standalone, long-running server. Serves all captured
sessions (from `lli watch` and `lli run`) and picks up new ones
automatically — keep it running in one terminal and capture from any other:

```bash
lli serve                          # http://127.0.0.1:48080, default traces dir

lli serve --port 48080 --output-dir ./traces
```

`lli watch` still embeds its own UI; when its port is already taken by a
standalone `lli serve` instance, it reuses that server.

### `lli stats`

Display statistics for a captured trace file.

```bash
lli stats traces/01_session_xxx/raw.jsonl
```

## 🔧 Supported LLM Providers

LLI is pre-configured to capture traffic from:

| Provider | API Domain |
|----------|------------|
| Anthropic | `api.anthropic.com` |
| OpenAI (Chat Completions & Responses API) | `api.openai.com` |
| Google | `generativelanguage.googleapis.com` |
| Together | `api.together.xyz` |
| Groq | `api.groq.com` |
| Mistral | `api.mistral.ai` |
| Cohere | `api.cohere.ai` |
| DeepSeek | `api.deepseek.com` |

Add custom providers with `--include` (using glob patterns):
```bash
lli watch --include "*my-custom-api.com*"
```

## 🐛 Troubleshooting

### SSL Certificate Error

**Problem:** `SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED`

**Solution:** Install the mitmproxy CA certificate. Run `lli config --cert-help` for instructions.

### Node.js Apps Not Working

**Problem:** Requests hang or timeout when using Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

**Solution:** Set the `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` environment variable:
```bash
export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem
```

### TLS / handshake errors behind corporate proxy

**Problem:** Upstream TLS handshake failures when capturing company URLs (e.g. traffic goes through a corporate proxy that uses a company CA).

**Solution:** Configure the upstream trust CA so LLI can verify the corporate proxy or target server certificate. Use `--upstream-ca-cert`, or set `proxy.upstream_ca_cert` in `lli.toml`, or `LLI_UPSTREAM_CA_CERT`. See the "Corporate network: upstream CA certificate" section above.

### No Traffic Captured

**Problem:** Watch mode is running but no requests are logged

**Solution:**
1. Verify proxy environment variables are set correctly
2. Make sure the URL matches the default patterns (or add `--include`)
3. Check `lli config --show` to see current filter patterns

## 📜 License

MIT License

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
Before committing from a fresh clone, run `lli-dev-setup` once to install the
repository's `pre-commit` hook locally.

## 📞 Support

- GitHub Issues: [Report a bug](https://github.com/chouzz/llm-interceptor/issues)
- Documentation: [Read the docs](https://github.com/chouzz/llm-interceptor#readme)
