Privacy

What leaves

Transcript content goes to your distill provider. Classification and distillation are model calls, so the text of a session — after scrubbing — is sent to whichever provider you configured:

• anthropic → Anthropic’s API, under your key and their data policy.
• claude-cli → your own Claude Code subscription, through the claude binary, same as an interactive session.
• codex-cli → your own ChatGPT plan, through the codex binary (OpenAI), same as an interactive Codex session.
• kie → Kie.ai, a third-party proxy. It’s supported for cheap test runs; for a vault you rely on, prefer anthropic or claude-cli so transcripts go only to Anthropic.

Before sending, vir strips API keys, bearer tokens, absolute filesystem paths, and email addresses. It cannot recognize every secret; if a session contains something you’d never paste into a chat, exclude that project.

Clipped articles and PDFs likewise go to the provider when their phase runs.

What stays

• The vault. Plain markdown on your disk.
• ~/.vir/vir.db — hashes, note content, embeddings.
• ~/.vir/cost.log, daemon.log, queries.jsonl.
• Embeddings, when you use ollama or local — computed on your machine.

vir has no server, no account, and no telemetry. Nothing phones home. Uninstall it and the vault is still yours.

What you control

Concern	Knob
Which agents are ever read	claudeProjectsDir / codexSessionsDir: unset one and vir never reads that agent’s sessions
Which projects are ever read	vir projects exclude <name>, or --only / --exclude-project per run
Tooling transcripts (subagents, workflows, SDK agents)	Excluded by default
Retrieval logging	"logQueries": false
Desktop notifications	"notifications": false
What reaches CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md	Nothing without a diff and your confirmation (vir sync-claude)
MCP exposure	Never writes the vault; vir_query sends the matched notes to your provider to synthesize, like vir query. vir mcp uninstall removes it

The website

virwiki.dev runs Vercel’s cookie-less Web Analytics and nothing else. The graph on the landing page is a sample of the author’s own vault — topic names only.