Privacy policy
- No personal information: Xum does not collect usernames, project names, file paths, or code content.
- Random IDs only: Workspace, parent-turn, and advisor-call IDs contain no user content.
- No hashing: Hashing is vulnerable to rainbow table attacks.
- Transparent payload: See exactly what is sent in
src/common/telemetry/payload.ts.
What Xum tracks
All telemetry events include basic system information:- Application version
- Operating system platform (
darwin,win32,linux) - Electron version
Specific events
- App started: When the app launches (includes a first-launch flag)
- Workspace creation: When a new workspace is created (workspace ID only)
- Workspace switching: When you switch between workspaces (workspace IDs only)
- Message sending: When messages are sent (model, mode, message length rounded to base-2)
- Errors: Error types and context (no sensitive data)
Advisor completion
The backend sends advisor_call_completed after each admitted advisor call, including errors and cancellations. Calls rejected by the usage limit do not send this event. The event includes:- Random workspace, parent-turn, and advisor-call IDs, plus the built-in provider route.
- A catalog model name. Unresolved custom model names become unknown.
- The outcome, call index, and time since the previous call within the current tool instance.
- The duration and time to the first text or reasoning token.
- Input, uncached input, cache-read, cache-write, and output token counts.
- Explicit Anthropic cache marker counts and their requested TTL.
- Estimated input cost, cache-write premium, cache-read savings, and net cache savings.
What Xum does not track
- Your messages or code
- Project names or file paths
- API keys or credentials
- Usernames or email addresses
- Any personally identifiable information
Disabling telemetry
To disable telemetry, setXUM_DISABLE_TELEMETRY before starting the app:
Source code
- Payload definitions:
src/common/telemetry/payload.ts - Backend service:
src/node/services/telemetryService.ts - Frontend client:
src/common/telemetry/client.ts - Privacy utilities:
src/common/telemetry/utils.ts