Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?
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1 hour ago
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Every session my AI coding agent reads files, runs commands, makes API calls. I have no idea exactly what ends up in the cloud. Is anyone actually tracking this at a granular level, or do we just trust the tool?
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zambelli
1 hour ago
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I trust the tool in that I don't send anything sensitive in there! Unless I built it, I assume it's going somewhere.

We have a policy at work around this where our most sensitive data can only be passed to on prem models.

That being said, I have no evidence of anything going to the cloud or frontier providers doing anything with chat history other than storing it for later.

Self-hosted + custom harness for anything I don't want getting out at all.

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lbrauer
1 hour ago
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Makes sense. Does your custom harness give you a record of what actually crossed the boundary, or is it mostly trust-based blocking?
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