privacy · updated 2 august 2026

Privacy policy

Two different things carry the CodeCave name, and they have opposite privacy stories. The software collects nothing because it runs on your machine. This website collects a little, because forms have to go somewhere. Here is exactly which is which.

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This is written in plain language on purpose. It is an accurate description of what we do, not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for your own counsel. If a lawyer tells you it needs to be longer, they are probably right, but it will still say the same things. Last updated 2 August 2026.

The product collects nothing

CodeCave is self-hosted software. You install it with npm i -g codecave and it runs as a process on your own machine, against git repositories that are already on your disk. It stores its data in a single local SQLite file under ~/.codecave/.

We do not host your instance. We do not receive your code, your tasks, your run logs, your costs, your usage, or a heartbeat telling us you exist. There is no account to create, no telemetry, and no server of ours involved at any point.

The one thing that leaves your machine is the agent’s call to your own model provider, using the Claude subscription or API key you already pay for. That is a relationship between you and them, under their terms — we are not a party to it and never see it. The security page spells that out in more detail.

What this website collects

This site — the pages you are reading — is the only part of CodeCave that collects anything. It collects exactly two things you type, and nothing else:

Waitlist email addresses. If you submit the launch-news form, we store the address you entered and which form on the page you sent it from.
Contact messages. If you use the contact form, we store the name, email address and message you wrote.

Both are written to this website’s own PostgreSQL database. (That database belongs to the site, not to the product — the product uses SQLite on your machine and the two never meet.) Our web host records standard server logs, including IP addresses, as every web server does.

We use them to reply to you and to send launch news you asked for. We do not sell them, rent them, trade them, or feed them into an advertising network. There is no tracking pixel on this site and no third-party marketing script.

Analytics

If analytics is configured for this deployment, it is Plausible — a privacy-friendly, EU-hosted analytics tool that uses no cookies, sets no persistent identifier, and does no cross-site tracking. It gives us aggregate page counts and referrers. It cannot follow you around the internet and neither can we.

If it is not configured, no analytics script loads at all — the tag is absent from the page rather than present and disabled.

Cookies and local storage

This site sets no tracking cookies. It does store one thing in your browser’s local storage: codecave-theme, which remembers whether you chose the dark or light theme. It never leaves your browser and identifies nothing.

Only the services required to run the site: our hosting and database provider, and our email provider when we reply to you. Plausible, if it is enabled. That is the entire list. We do not share your data with anyone else, and we will not start without saying so here first.

How long we keep it, and how to get it deleted

Waitlist addresses are kept until you ask us to remove them or until the launch mailing they exist for is done. Contact messages are kept as long as the conversation is useful.

To see, correct or delete anything we hold about you, email hello@codecave.ai from the address in question. No form, no process, no arguing. There is very little to delete, which is rather the point.

Children

This site is aimed at professional developers and is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If we change what we collect, we change this page and move the date at the top. If a change is material — a new category of data, a new recipient — we will say so plainly rather than hoping you re-read it.

Questions

Ask. hello@codecave.ai, or the contact form. The terms are the other half of this.