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		huflungdung 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Code 2.0 How are these reliably extracted (hint: they’re not)

simonw 5 months ago | [–]

It's very easy to extract the system prompt from Claude Code: you can patch it to intercept HTTP calls it makes.

I wrote about one tool for doing that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/

marckrn 5 months ago | [–]

See https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/

Why do you think these aren't legit?

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