It is similar but no real shenanigans but rather a common functionality called uprobes. For most of these LLM clients which uses a static compiled OpenSSL or BoringSSL the functions you attach to is also the same overall, making it easily reusable when you know what to do. There has been plenty of srticles over the time on it, quite a fun thing to play around with. I made it work already with most of them for research purposes.