reverse-engineering
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Reverse Engineering Claude Code: What's Hiding Inside a 213MB CLI Tool?
The author spent a week tearing apart Claude Code's 213MB binary and discovered it's essentially a massive prompt delivery system built on Bun, packed with unreleased features and telemetry.
Reverse-Engineering Codex: Cracking Open the Context Compaction API with Prompt Injection
Developer Kangwook Lee used just 2 API calls and 35 lines of Python to crack open Codex's hidden context compaction API via prompt injection — revealing the secret system prompts behind the encryption.