I got obsessed with why Claude Code feels so much more intuitive than other AI coding tools, so I intercepted its API calls to reverse engineer the entire system.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Cracking Open the CLI Bundle
02:11 Intercepting Requests with Proxy Man
02:59 Understanding the Core Agent Workflow
04:31 Diving into the System Prompt
05:10 Reiteration is Key
07:23 System Reminder Nudges
08:14 Workflow as Natural Language
09:25 Importance of Prompt Formatting
10:34 Exploring Sub-agents
13:08 Actual Sub-agent Request
15:00 Tool Definitions Verbose?
18:19 Other Notable Features
19:09 Prompt Tuning Is Model Specific
