Privacy and data
Driga runs on your machine and has no account, server or API key. This page is about the app; the website is covered on its own privacy page.
What it reads
Section titled “What it reads”Local agent session metadata and logs, the process table, machine health and local Git state. Agent configuration is changed only by explicit setup and hook commands, each previewed first.
What it stores
Section titled “What it stores”The default capture_text = "titles" stores generated session titles, file
paths, and session, process, Git and machine metadata.
capture_text = "snippets" additionally stores prompt and handoff snippets,
each scrubbed for secrets and capped at 200 characters.
Full transcripts are never stored. Paths and titles can identify you, and secret scrubbing cannot guarantee privacy.
What can leave the machine
Section titled “What can leave the machine”Nothing, unless you turn one of these on:
| Feature | What leaves | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Paired machines | Metadata and titles by default; snippets only if both sides opt in | Viewers you paired with |
Chat and driga ask | Your question, scrubbed, and context filtered by the capture policy | Claude, through your installed claude CLI and its login |
| Summaries | Project name, branches, counts, commit subjects, session titles; handoff text only with snippets | Same |
Chat tools you approve may make network connections. Claude’s own session history is managed by Claude, not by Driga’s capture policy.
OTLP intake listens on loopback, and drops prompt, response and tool content,
user.* attributes and organization.id before storage. The web dashboard
listens on loopback and requires a local access token.
Where files live
Section titled “Where files live”| Data | macOS | Linux | Override |
|---|---|---|---|
| Database and collector state | ~/Library/Application Support/driga/ | $XDG_DATA_HOME/driga or ~/.local/share/driga/ | DRIGA_DATA_DIR |
| Hook spool | ~/Library/Application Support/driga/events/ | $XDG_STATE_HOME/driga/events or ~/.local/state/driga/events/ | DRIGA_SPOOL_DIR |
| Configuration | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/driga/config.toml or ~/.config/driga/config.toml | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/driga/config.toml or ~/.config/driga/config.toml | DRIGA_CONFIG |
On Windows the data directory is %LOCALAPPDATA%\driga\ and the configuration
is %APPDATA%\driga\config.toml.
Database and spool files are mode 0600 in 0700 directories. driga doctor
warns when the database and its WAL exceed 500 MB.
MCP server trend detail is kept at minute resolution for 24 hours, then as hourly endpoints for 30 days. Persisted Chat conversations are kept for 30 days.