rea + mitmproxy: a 60-second workflow that makes Claude Code expose what your apps are phoning home
Kyrannio · x · 2026-11-15
A viral thread argues that combining rea with mitmproxy could expose more app privacy issues in 2026 than every data leak combined. mitmproxy records everything an app sends over the network; rea reads the recording and points to the exact code that sent it — so you see what left, where it went, and which part of the app did it, not just that "something phoned home."
The free 60-second setup:
- Install mitmproxy and point one app on your own machine at it
- Save the session as a .har file
- Run npx rea-agents setup
- Tell Claude Code: "read session.har with rea. List every request that carries my data and the code that sent it"
It's a self-serve privacy audit workflow that wires network capture into an AI coding agent.
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