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Can I track my AI coding activity privately?

Short answer

Yes. A local-first app can read your AI tools' history on your own machine and keep the content there. Ascenda Flow works that way: it reads locally and sends only counts, timings and tool events, never your prompts, code or model outputs.

Why it matters

Your prompts and code say a lot about your work and your employer's. Many analytics tools need that content on their servers to work. If you want to understand your own patterns with AI agents, you shouldn't have to hand over what you wrote to do it.

How Ascenda helps

Flow reads your AI tools' local history and live activity on your Mac. What it sends is counts, timings and tool events — never your prompts, code or model outputs. Your journal and reflections stay on your Mac unless you turn on sync.

Flow is free for macOS 12 and later, and works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and Gemini CLI. Your view is yours. If your organisation runs an Ascenda Report or Study, you choose whether to take part, and it only ever sees aggregates of ten or more people, never you.

The full list of what is read, sent and stored is on the Trust page.

Next step

See it on your own weeks

Flow is free for macOS. It imports the history your AI tools already keep, so the first read covers weeks you've already worked.

Get Flow for MacBook a Study

Related questions

Can my coding agent read my own work history?

Flow exposes two local MCP tools so a coding agent can read your own sessions and days: timings, tools, models, supervising time, failures and compactions. Local only.

How do I measure my Claude Code, Codex or Cursor use beyond tokens?

Tokens show what the model consumed. Flow reads Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI history to show how you worked with agents: steering, switching and rework.

How can we measure AI engineering without monitoring individual employees?

Ascenda reports only aggregates of ten or more consenting engineers, with no individual view for managers. Prompts, code and model outputs are never sent.