🕵️ We Built an AI Spy Tool That Reverse Engineers Hidden APIs | Hero Extract

*Summary*
This video covers a live group session where the host walks through two major updates: an upgraded AutoHotKey inspection tool with a dark theme and AI-powered automation ranking, and a new HAR file analyzer tool designed to reverse-engineer hidden web APIs and generate AutoHotKey classes directly, removing the need to rely on AI tokens at runtime.

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*Key Points*
[00:00:00] - Inspection Tool Updates and AI-Powered Approach Ranking
• The team updated their AutoHotKey inspection tool with a dark theme, now toggled via hotkey, along with customizable hotkey preferences in the settings panel.
• A new feature was added that uses AI to rank-order which automation approach (Win32 Controls, UIA, etc.) is best suited for a given program, rather than just listing what is available.
• When tested on an older version of Notepad, the AI correctly ranked Win32 Controls highest, with UIA second, and even generated a text-based bar graph inside a list view to display scores, something neither developer had ever seen before.
• The dark theme branch was kept separate to avoid breaking the main version, and Irfan was asked to backport the changes. The team also learned to update their Claude skill files whenever AI struggles with GUI elements like dark-themed list views or edit fields.

[00:06:45] - HAR File Analyzer and AutoHotKey API Class Generator
• The host introduced a new tool inspired by a browser HAR (HTTP Archive) file workflow, where you record browser network traffic, export the HAR file, and feed it to Claude via a plugin called "Printing Press" to generate a CLI for the site.
• Rather than stopping at a CLI, the host pushed further, asking Claude to analyze the HAR file and write a full AutoHotKey class that interfaces directly with the site's hidden, non-public API, eliminating the need to manually reverse-engineer it.
• HAR files can exceed 30 MB, so the tool includes domain and request-type filters to strip out irrelevant traffic before sending data to the AI, keeping token usage low.
• The tool uses Open Router so it is not locked to Claude, and the end goal is a deterministic, token-free AutoHotKey program that is faster, more reliable, and cheaper than continuously querying AI at runtime.

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*Brief Summary*
The session highlights a practical philosophy of using AI as a code-generation assistant rather than a permanent runtime dependency, building reusable AutoHotKey tools and classes so automation runs fast and free of ongoing token costs. Both the inspection tool upgrades and the HAR analyzer point toward smarter, more self-sufficient automation workflows the team is actively developing and refining.

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