Privacy and Security
Philosophy
Neo Zed collects minimal data necessary to serve and improve our product. Features that could share data, like AI and telemetry, are either opt-in or can be disabled.
- Telemetry: Neo Zed collects only the data necessary to understand usage and fix issues. Client-side telemetry can be disabled in settings.
- AI: Data sharing for AI improvement is opt-in, and each share is a one-time action; it does not grant permission for future data collection. You can use Neo Zed's AI features without sharing any data with Neo Zed and without authenticating.
- Open Source: Neo Zed's codebase is public. You can inspect exactly what data is collected and how it is handled. If you find issues, we encourage you to report them.
- Secure by default: Designing Neo Zed and our service with secure-by-default as an objective is of utmost importance to us. We take your security and ours very seriously and strive to follow industry best practices.
Related Documentation
- Tool Permissions: Configure granular rules to control which agent actions are auto-approved, blocked, or require confirmation.
- Worktree trust: How Neo Zed opens files and directories in restricted mode.
- Telemetry: How Neo Zed collects general telemetry data.
- Neo Zed AI Features and Privacy: An overview of Neo Zed's AI features, your data when using AI in Neo Zed, and how to opt in and help Neo Zed improve these features.
- Accounts: When and why you'd need to authenticate into Neo Zed, how to do so, and what scope we need from you.
- Collab: How Neo Zed's live collaboration works and how data flows. Neo Zed does not store your code.