Open Terminal

Open Terminal starts a new shell whose environment already points at Probe, so curl, git, npm, pip and other command-line tools appear in the log without changing your system proxy. Only that shell is affected. Probe keeps its setup files in ~/.probe/ (the setup script, and on macOS a copy of its CA and a Node wrapper); closing the shell undoes nothing there.

Open it from Tools → Open Terminal and pick a terminal app. The new shell shows a Probe banner and a (probe) prompt. Depending on the app it opens as a new window or as a new tab.

The shell gets the proxy variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY (and their lowercase forms), pointing at Probe's running port, plus the GLOBAL_AGENT_* variables Node proxy libraries read.

macOS

Choose Terminal.app or iTerm. Terminal.app opens a new window. iTerm opens a new window, or a new tab if one is already open.

On top of the proxy variables, the shell gets:

• CA trust variables (NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, SSL_CERT_FILE, REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, CURL_CA_BUNDLE and PIP_CERT) pointing at a copy of Probe's CA, so HTTPS tools trust it;
• a small Node.js wrapper, so Node libraries and the built-in fetch() that ignore proxy variables are captured too.

macOS may ask for permission to control the terminal app (an Automation prompt); allow it. Tools → Open Terminal → Manual Setup Guide shows copy-paste snippets if you'd rather set up a shell you already have open.

Windows

Choose Windows Terminal (opens a new tab in your current window), PowerShell 7 or Windows PowerShell (each opens its own window). The shell starts with the proxy variables set to Probe's running port.

The shell's CA variables (SSL_CERT_FILE, REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS and PIP_CERT) point at ~/.probe/ca.pem, a copy of Probe's CA that Probe writes each time it opens the shell, so pip, Python requests, curl and Node trust Probe's certificates there. Tools that use the Windows certificate store instead (browsers, many .NET and PowerShell cmdlets) need the CA installed into Windows.

A shell keeps the port it was opened with. If you change the proxy port, open a new terminal.