Privacy

Privacy policy

Short version: cogito-mem runs on your computer, and we never see anything you do with it.

What we collect

Nothing. cogito-mem has no account, no analytics, no telemetry and no server of ours. The people who make it receive no data from it, ever.

What cogito-mem stores on your computer

Your messages and Claude's replies, word for word, with their dates, in ~/.cogito-mem/. Secrets such as API keys, tokens and passwords are replaced with [redacted] before anything is stored. What you install lists every file.

What goes over the network

Only the one-time downloads that set it up: Cogi's code and its Python dependency, llama.cpp from its official releases, and the EmbeddingGemma 2 model from Hugging Face. Those sites see a normal download request, as with any install. After that, cogito-mem makes no network connections. Its service answers only on 127.0.0.1, your own computer.

Your control

• Read your memory: it is a SQLite file in ~/.cogito-mem/memory/.
• Keep something out: wrap it in <private>…</private>, or pause saving with COGITO_MEM_CAPTURE=off.
• Erase everything: rm -rf ~/.cogito-mem.

This website

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages and uses no cookies, analytics or external fonts. GitHub may keep standard server logs; see GitHub's privacy statement.

Contact

Questions: open an issue. This policy was last updated on 20 October 2026; changes are tracked in the repository.