Trust
What leaves your machine, and what doesn’t.
Nothing from the record Rooted Reality keeps leaves your computer. A few small things do go out, and none of them carries it.
What does go out.
Your machine
Stays here: Programs, folders, file names, destinations and times. The desktop app reads the record where it is. We don’t upload it.
Nothing from the record leaves your machine. What does go out:
Host-name lookups
To put names on addresses, the recorder looks up a short, fixed list of well-known host names. The lookups carry nothing from your record.
Update checks
The app checks for new versions of itself. The check carries nothing from your record.
A ping on your phone Planned
“Needs your attention” and the name of a category, like “left running”, sent through Apple’s or Google’s push service. No program names, files, folders or addresses. Not built yet.
Stays on your machine: the record
In the record
- The programs your coding agents start
- When each one starts and stops, and which chat started it
- The folders they work in
- The names of files created, changed or removed while a chat is open
- The destinations they connect to: the address, and a name where the recorder can put one
Never in it
- Your conversations with the agent
- What's inside your files
- The contents of network traffic
The desktop app reads the record where it is. We don’t upload it.
What each view doesn’t show
Right now
Doesn’t showyour conversation with the agent. It shows what ran, not what was said.
Left running
Doesn’t showwhether a program should be stopped. It shows what is still running; that call stays yours.
Where they connected
Doesn’t showthe contents of those connections. It records where, not the data that went back and forth.
This website
If you join the waitlist, we keep your email address and your answers, and email you about the beta. The privacy page covers what we keep and how to have it removed. Privacy: email lists
Nothing from the record is sent to this website. The desktop app’s update check asks this website whether a newer version exists.
How we talk about it
We claim only what the recorder measures, and each view says what it doesn’t show.
Questions
Write to hello@rootedreality.com about any of this.
The legal documents
Join the waitlist.
The private beta is forming now, Mac first. Free during the beta; a one-time Pro purchase later.