Inspect traffic
Search and command palette
Press Shift-Command-A in Cloak Proxy to find and run any action, debugging tool, setting, window, API client item or captured request from the keyboard.
Search Everything is Cloak Proxy’s command palette. One search box finds any action, debugging tool, settings option, window, API client item, app, domain or captured request, and runs it when you press Return. It’s the fastest way to reach a setting you can’t remember the location of, or a request you saw a minute ago.
Open Search Everything
Section titled “Open Search Everything”Use any of these:
- Press ⇧ ⌘ A in any Cloak Proxy window.
- Choose Tools › Search Everything….
- Click Search in the main window’s toolbar.
The palette opens near the top of the window in front. It closes when you press Esc, press ⇧ ⌘ A again, click outside it, or run a result.
Before you type, the palette shows your recent picks and a few suggestions.
- Type to search
- Recent items and suggestions
- Return opens, arrows move, Esc closes
Find and run something
Section titled “Find and run something”- Open the palette and start typing, for example
ssl,usersorbreakpoint. - Use ↑ and ↓ to move through the results.
- Press Return, or click a result, to run it.
Every word you type must appear in a result’s name, its subtitle or its hidden keywords, in any order. Results that start with your text rank first, and the best one is shown alone as Top Hit. Then come the other results, grouped:
| Group | Contains | Shown |
|---|---|---|
| Actions | Things you can do now | Up to 8 |
| Debugging Tools | Each tool, and turning it on or off | Up to 8 |
| Settings | Every settings page and option | Up to 8 |
| Windows & Pages | Windows, Insights pages and device setup pages | Up to 8 |
| API Client | Sections, new requests and everything in your workspace | Up to 8 |
| Captured Traffic | Apps, domains and requests from this session | Up to 12 |
If nothing matches, the palette says Nothing matches “your text”.
Before you type
Section titled “Before you type”With an empty search, the palette lists Recent (the last six things you ran) and Suggestions: MCP, API Client, Capture macOS Traffic, Breakpoint, Map Local, SSL Proxying Hosts, iPhone & iPad and the Insights Overview. Items you ran recently aren’t repeated in the suggestions.
Search captured traffic
Section titled “Search captured traffic”The palette searches the current session as well as the app.
- Apps and domains. Every app and domain in the sidebar is listed with its request count, such as App · 26 requests. Running one selects it in the sidebar.
- Requests. Once you’ve typed two or more characters, the palette searches request URLs, newest first, and lists up to 25 matches. Each shows the method and URL, with the request number, status code and app underneath, such as #11 · 200 · Safari. Running one clears your filters and selects the request in the traffic list.
Searching “users” finds the requests whose URL contains it.
- The best match
- Request number, status code and app
- More captured requests
Reach settings and windows
Section titled “Reach settings and windows”Every settings option is indexed with the words you’re likely to use, so mitm, decrypt or intercept all find SSL Proxying Hosts, and port finds Proxy Port. Running a setting opens the Settings window on the right page.
Settings show the page they live on.
- A settings page
- An option, with its page
One search reaches the MCP hub, the MCP setting and MCP requests in your workspace.
Everything you can search
Section titled “Everything you can search”Actions
Section titled “Actions”| Result | Does |
|---|---|
| Pause Recording / Resume Recording | Toggles recording |
| Clear Session | Removes every captured request |
| Capture macOS Traffic / Stop Capturing macOS Traffic | Turns the macOS proxy on or off |
| Compose Request | Opens Compose |
| Open Session, HAR or Charles File… | Opens a saved or exported session |
| Save Session… | Saves the session as a .cloaksession file |
| Reset Filters | Clears every filter |
| Export as format… | Exports as Cloak Proxy Session, HAR, CSV, Postman Collection or OpenAPI (YAML) |
| Show Only type | Filters to one content chip, such as Show Only JSON or Show Only WebSocket |
| Capture app (Not Using the Proxy) | Opens the capture sheet for an app that skips the proxy. Only when one is detected. |
These appear only when a request is selected, with its URL underneath:
| Result | Does |
|---|---|
| Repeat Selected Request | Sends the selected requests again |
| Edit and Repeat | Opens the request in Compose |
| Save Selected Request to API Client | Adds it to the Captured Requests collection |
| Copy as format | Copies the selected requests as code, in any of the 20 formats, such as Copy as Python |
| New tool Rule from Selection | Creates a Breakpoint, Map Local, Map Remote, Scripting, Block List, Allow List, Network Conditions, DNS Spoofing or Alerts rule from the request |
| Mock Selected Responses | Creates a Mock Set from the selected responses |
| Compare the Two Selected Requests | Opens Compare. Only with exactly two selected. |
The URL under these actions is for reference; typing part of it won’t find them.
Debugging tools
Section titled “Debugging tools”Each debugging tool appears twice: once by name, with On · edit rules or Off · edit rules underneath, which opens its rules in the Tools window, and once as Turn On tool or Turn Off tool.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Page | Options you can search for |
|---|---|
| General | Proxy Port, Allow Other Devices to Connect, Capture macOS Traffic When Cloak Proxy Opens, Offer HTTP/2 to Apps, Max Captured Body Size |
| SSL Proxying | SSL Proxying Hosts |
| Bypass | Bypass List |
| Certificate | Root Certificate, Copy Certificate PEM, Remove Certificate from Keychain, Regenerate Certificate, Use My Own CA, Client Certificates (Mutual TLS) |
| Network | External Proxy, SOCKS5 Proxy, Reverse Proxies, Allowed Devices |
| Advanced | Write TLS Keys for Wireshark, Command-Line Tool (cloakctl), AI Assistants (MCP) |
The General, SSL Proxying, Certificate, Network and Advanced pages are also results on their own. See Settings for what every option does.
Windows and pages
Section titled “Windows and pages”API Client, MCP, Debugging Tools, Breakpoint Window, each Insights page (Overview, Endpoints, Security, Secrets, Performance, Schema, Timeline, Alerts), and each Device & Runtime Setup page (This Mac, iPhone & iPad, iOS Simulator, Android, Terminal, Java, Firefox, Docker).
API client
Section titled “API client”Each API client section (Collections, Environments, Datasets, History, Specs, Flows, Packages, Mock Servers, Monitors, Webhooks, Vault, Git), New HTTP Request and a New kind Request for every other protocol, and everything in your workspace: each collection (and Run collection for the collection runner), every saved request with its collection and folder, and each environment, spec, flow, dataset, monitor and package. Saved requests are also found by their URL.