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liaohch3/claude-tap

liaohch3/claude-tap is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its Radar section, currently rated Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.5 out of 10.

Score8.0
Popularity7.5
Risklow
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum7.0
Maturity6.5
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.5
Setup ease8.8

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for AI builders, agent platform engineers, and security/QA teams who need to see exactly what a coding agent sent to the model and what came back, because Claude-Tap captures the full request/response stream in a local viewer, which means regressions, prompt-injection probes, and silent model swaps become visible and reproducible rather than guesswork from logs.

Who should use it

AI builders who want to see the actual HTTP traffic between a coding agent and the model API Agent platform engineers debugging regressions in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or Cursor Security and QA teams running prompt-injection probes against coding agents in a reproducible way

Who should skip it

Skip liaohch3/claude-tap unless the captured evidence suggests it solves a problem you are actively working on.

About this signal

liaohch3/claude-tap is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Radar section. First seen —; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-21. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and easy setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, liaohch3/claude-tap is strongest on workflow potential (9.5) and practical usefulness (9.0) and weakest on maturity (6.5) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The liaohch3/claude-tap record combines a 8.0/10 composite score with separate popularity (7.5), risk (low), and setup (easy) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

It records full API traffic from coding agents including prompts and tool calls, so keep the trace viewer local, redact any captured secrets before sharing traces, and do not run it on workloads that mix production credentials with dev traffic.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
agent-debugging agent-observability api-debugging claude-code codex gemini-cli cursor trace-viewer
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

44 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-21 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.0 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.3 current · +2.3 net
GitHub stars (observed)3,049 current · +580 net
GitHub stars3,049 exact observation
Versionv0.1.143
Last release2026-08-13T13:46:43Z
Maintenanceactive
Current risklow
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineClaude Code, OpenAI Codex

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.09.33,049lowtry nowactive
2026-08-128.09.63,040lowtry nowactive
2026-08-118.09.63,015lowtry nowactive
2026-08-108.09.32,996lowtry nowactive
2026-08-098.09.32,991lowtry nowactive
2026-08-088.09.32,985lowtry nowactive
2026-08-078.09.62,951lowtry nowactive
2026-08-068.07.0Not recordedlowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.07.0Not recordedlowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.09.62,951lowtry nowactive
2026-08-038.09.62,951lowtry nowactive
2026-08-028.09.32,935lowtry nowactive

Why the record changed

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Stars changed: 3040 → 3049.

version changed

Version changed: v0.1.142 → v0.1.143.

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Version changed: v0.1.141 → v0.1.142.

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Source-observed stars changed: 2928 → 2931. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

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Stars changed: 2890 → 2904.