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+# Loki Mode Privacy and Telemetry
+
+This document is an honest, complete disclosure of what Loki Mode collects, what
+it never collects, and how to turn collection off. If anything here does not
+match the code, the code is the bug; please open an issue.
+
+## Summary
+
+- Loki Mode collects anonymous diagnostics to help find and fix bugs.
+- It NEVER collects your code, prompts, PRDs, file paths, environment values,
+  API keys, repository names, emails, or IP addresses.
+- In this version (crash reporting Phase 0), NOTHING is sent automatically.
+  Crash reports are written to a local directory only, so you can inspect
+  exactly what a future version would send.
+- You can opt out at any time with a single switch. The same switch also
+  disables the existing anonymous usage telemetry described below.
+
+## Two collection paths exist
+
+### 1. Crash reporting (Phase 0: local-only, no network)
+
+When Loki Mode hits an unexpected error (an uncaught exception, an unhandled
+promise rejection, a nonzero process exit, or an explicit friction signal such
+as a retry loop, a rate-limit loop, or a quality-gate failure), it captures a
+scrubbed diagnostic report.
+
+Phase 0 behavior:
+
+- The report is scrubbed by a shared Python module before anything is written.
+  If a scrubber is not available (no python3 on the system), Loki Mode writes
+  nothing and sends nothing. This is fail-closed by design.
+- The scrubbed report is written locally to `.loki/crash/<id>.json` in your
+  project directory.
+- No network request is made. Phase 0 has zero egress.
+- You can read the reports yourself:
+  - `loki crash` lists local reports.
+  - `loki crash show <id>` prints one report exactly as stored.
+  - `loki crash submit [<id>]` prints the full scrubbed payload and a prefilled
+    GitHub issue URL so you can submit it manually if you choose. Loki Mode does
+    not submit anything for you in this version.
+
+### 2. Usage telemetry (existing, anonymous)
+
+Loki Mode already ships anonymous usage telemetry via PostHog. This predates the
+crash-reporting feature and is disclosed here for completeness.
+
+- Events: `session_start`, `session_end`, and an install-time event.
+- These are anonymous and gated by the same opt-out described below.
+- They never carry your code, prompts, paths, keys, or repository names.
+
+This document and the first-run notice describe BOTH paths. The opt-out is
+unified: one switch disables crash reporting AND usage telemetry together.
+
+## What is collected (the whitelist)
+
+Crash reports contain ONLY the following fields. Anything not on this list is
+dropped, not merely redacted:
+
+- os (operating system, e.g. Darwin, Linux)
+- arch (CPU architecture, e.g. arm64, x86_64)
+- loki_version (the Loki Mode version)
+- runtime version (node version and/or bun version)
+- error_class (e.g. TypeError, ENOENT, NonZeroExit)
+- stack_signature (a short list of normalized stack frame signatures:
+  function or symbol names only, with file paths, line numbers, and columns
+  stripped)
+- rarv_phase (which phase of the RARV cycle was active, when known)
+- exit_code
+- friction_kind (retry_loop, rate_limit_loop, or gate_failure) when applicable
+- project_id_hash (a one-way hash, see the tradeoff note below)
+- fingerprint (a dedup key derived from the error class plus the normalized
+  stack signatures)
+- rules_version and redactions_count (scrubber bookkeeping)
+- captured_at (UTC timestamp, second precision)
+
+## What is NEVER collected
+
+- Your source code
+- Your prompts, briefs, or PRDs
+- File contents of any kind
+- File paths (home paths are stripped to `~`; paths are not whitelisted)
+- Environment variable values
+- API keys, tokens, or other secrets
+- Repository names
+- Email addresses
+- IP addresses
+
+Because the report is whitelist-only (deny by default), free-text fields such as
+prompts, briefs, and diffs can never reach the payload even if a redaction rule
+were to miss something. Secrets are additionally scrubbed by the shared redactor
+before whitelisting.
+
+## How to opt out
+
+Any one of the following disables BOTH crash reporting and usage telemetry:
+
+- Set the environment variable `LOKI_TELEMETRY=off`
+- Run `loki telemetry off`
+- Set `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` (the cross-tool community convention)
+- Set `LOKI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true`
+
+To re-enable later, run `loki telemetry on` or unset the variables. Once you opt
+out, the first-run notice is never shown again.
+
+## Where reports are stored locally
+
+Scrubbed crash reports live in `.loki/crash/` inside your project directory. You
+can open these files in any text editor or use `loki crash show <id>`. In Phase 0
+this directory is the only place crash data exists; it is yours to read or
+delete at any time.
+
+## The unsalted project-id tradeoff (plain language)
+
+The `project_id_hash` is a SHA-256 hash of your git remote origin URL, after
+normalizing it (scheme removed, `.git` suffix removed, trailing slash removed,
+host lowercased). It does NOT hash your local filesystem path, so it carries no
+`/Users/<name>/` style information.
+
+The hash is unsalted on purpose. An unsalted hash lets two users who hit the
+same bug in the same public repository collapse to a single triage entry, which
+is the entire point of deduplication and occurrence counting. A per-user salt
+would defeat that. The cost of leaving it unsalted is that, for a known PUBLIC
+repository, someone could hash candidate repo URLs and check for a match. But
+the only thing that would reveal is which public repository was involved, which
+is already public information, so the privacy cost is acceptable. For a PRIVATE
+repository, the origin still hashes to an opaque value that leaks no path or
+name. We chose cross-user dedup over per-user unlinkability, and we are stating
+that choice plainly so you can decide whether to opt out.
+
+## Compliance posture
+
+- Anonymous by design: no PII is in the whitelist; emails and IP addresses are
+  denied outright.
+- Disclosed: this document plus a first-run notice describe collection before
+  any egress occurs.
+- Opt-out is persistent and friction-free (see above) and applies to both
+  collection paths.
+- The project id is non-reversible (one-way hash).
+- Deletion: you can delete local reports yourself by removing files under
+  `.loki/crash/`.
+
+## Questions
+
+Open an issue at https://github.com/asklokesh/loki-mode/issues and we will
+clarify or correct this document.