Building ccglass: the architecture of a local LLM reverse proxy (opens in new tab)

The 30-second pitch ccglass is a local reverse proxy that captures LLM API traffic from coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.) and shows you a real-time dashboard of prompts, costs, and cache hit rates. It's open source. It's 5,000 lines of Node. It's MIT licensed. GitHub: The constraint that shaped everything The hardest part wasn't building a proxy. It was making it work with coding agent CLIs that deliberately bypass HTTP_PROXY. Every native CLI (Claude Code is Node, ...