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Zatanna Kampala: MITM Proxy for AI Workflow Automation

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Zatanna has launched Kampala, a man-in-the-middle proxy that transforms software workflows into reliable APIs for AI agents. Built by Alex and Tarun, the tool intercepts traffic from websites, mobile apps, and desktop applications to reverse engineer workflows without brittle browser automation or computer use agents.

The founders developed Kampala while working in dental tech, where they needed to integrate with insurance payer dashboards and legacy dental-practice solutions. Their background in web reverse engineering for sneaker releases and sportsbook logins informed the tool's design. Existing MITM proxies failed because they manipulated TLS fingerprints, had inadequate MCPs, and couldn't build workflows from request sequences.

Kampala preserves HTTP/TLS fingerprints to avoid anti-bot detection and automatically maps auth chains, tokens, and sessions. Users can either use the agent harness that prompts for actions or manually complete a workflow once and have coding agents replicate it. The tool exports scripts, runs them, or hosts them, offering deterministic automation in seconds by leveraging existing session tokens.