Privacy

Sieve runs on your machine. Sieve sends nothing.

What Sieve sends

• Sieve makes no network call. sieve version runs no update check.
• Sieve sends no telemetry. sieve telemetry records nothing and writes no file.
• Sieve has no LLM pass. Sieve does not send your code to a model provider.

What Sieve stores

Where	What
sieve/ in the repo	The index: the graph, per-file cards and caches.
sieve/.cache/session/	Session files. sieve stats reads them.
.sieve/config.json in the repo	Build settings and the pane mascot.
.gitignore, .ignore in the repo	Entries that build adds.

init also writes agent files. See Claude Code. Only init --global writes under your home folder.

The index holds data about your code. Do not commit sieve/. build adds it to .gitignore.

Hooks

Hook settings exist only after you run sieve init. sieve uninstall removes them. The hooks run the local sieve program.

Remove everything

sieve uninstall --yes

Add --keep-cache to keep sieve/.

Report a security problem

Use the GitHub private vulnerability report at github.com/iamalvisng/sieve (Security tab, “Report a vulnerability”). Do not open a public issue.

This website

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