Privacy policy

Your data stays yours.

Last updated: April 2026

Summary

Sensei is local-first software. Your code, sessions, patterns, and memories are stored on your machine in a local PostgreSQL database. We do not collect, transmit, or have access to any of your data.

What sensei stores

Sensei stores the following data locally on your machine:

  • Session transcripts between you and your AI coding assistants
  • Detected patterns, idioms, and adopted memories
  • Codebase index data (file structure, symbols, call graphs)
  • Semantic search embeddings (generated locally via Ollama when available)
  • Session metrics (first-try rates, tool usage, cost tracking)
  • Your configuration preferences

What sensei does not do

  • Does not make outbound network requests (except to the AI assistant you already use)
  • Does not collect telemetry or usage analytics
  • Does not phone home, check licenses, or validate accounts
  • Does not transmit any data to our servers — we don't operate servers
  • Does not include tracking pixels, analytics scripts, or fingerprinting

Third-party services

Sensei connects to your AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) via MCP. Those services have their own privacy policies. Sensei does not add to or modify what those services already see.

When Ollama is used for local inference, all model execution happens on your hardware. No data is sent to external model providers.

Update checks

Sensei does not check for updates automatically. Updates are checked manually from Help → Check for Updates, which makes a single request to GitHub's releases API.

Data deletion

All sensei data lives in a single directory on your machine. Deleting that directory removes everything. You can also export all data to JSON before deletion. Uninstalling the app removes all application files.

This website

This website is a static site. It does not use cookies, does not run analytics, and does not collect personal information. Font files are loaded from Google Fonts, which is subject to Google's privacy policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be directed to the project maintainers via GitHub Issues.