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Alice T'Poteattelemetry: complete rows gathered through $, sent in batches, serving built-in plugins only (#95618) 4564326 · on Sep 20, 2026 History

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1	# telemetry
2
3	Plugin analytics as a plugin: one `engine.create` step adds `$.telemetry` to
4	the engine interface every plugin above it is handed, built over the nouns
5	beneath, and a hook on its own two events serves the plugins built into
6	Claude Code alone: a call from a plugin a person installed or an
7	administrator listed is refused with a reason (the host stamps every call
8	with the plugin that raised it, `next.origin`, and the gate reads its tier).
9	`$.telemetry.log({ event, props })` queues one event as one first-party
10	row, `tengu_plugin_<event>`; `$.telemetry.mark({ feature, kind, reason?,
11	props? })` marks one use of a feature as the CLI's own feature events do,
12	`tengu_feature_<kind>` with a `feature_name` and the mark's properties
13	beside it. Both resolve once the row is queued. Rows go out in batches: one
14	POST to the event-logging ingest with the session's own credential
15	(`$.session.authorize()`, resolved for each batch) a few seconds after the
16	first row was queued, at once when a hundred wait, and when the session
17	ends; a batch the ingest refuses with a server error, a timeout or a rate
18	limit is tried once more. A session with no first-party credential, or an
19	ingest that still refuses, drops the batch; each outcome is one line in the
20	debug log.
21
22	Each row carries what the CLI's own rows carry, gathered through `$` once
23	a session: an event id, the install's device id and the signed-in account's
24	ids from the CLI's global config, the session's id, model, client type,
25	entrypoint and interactivity, and an `env` block (platform and
26	architecture from one `uname` probe, terminal, shell, package managers and
27	runtimes, CI and GitHub Actions, the remote container, the deployment, the
28	Linux distribution and kernel, WSL, the working directory's version
29	control), with the repository's remote hash beside the row's properties.
30	What the engine alone knows (its version and build time, its runtime's
31	version, the process's memory, the request's betas, the subscription tier,
32	the calling agent) is not on `$`, and those columns stay empty.
33
34	It sends nothing wherever the CLI's own analytics are off: under
35	`DISABLE_TELEMETRY`, `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC` or
36	`DO_NOT_TRACK`, in a test run, on any third-party provider (Bedrock,
37	Vertex, Foundry and kin) the host does not manage, on a cloud gateway
38	(the environment's switch or the managed policy's login pins), and on a
39	deployment with its own OAuth URL. Each is read through `$.env` and
40	`$.settings` before every batch, so a session that has since moved to a
41	third-party provider or a gateway sends nothing more; when the switches
42	cannot be read, nothing is sent either. The row's `user_type` is `ant`
43	when `USER_TYPE` says so, else `external`.
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45	Nothing free-form reaches a row. An event name and every property key is a
46	snake_case token; a value is a finite number, a boolean, or a Choice (a
47	string named together with the list it is chosen from), under `log` and
48	`mark` alike; `mark` takes `ok`, `sad` or `bad`, with a `reason` required on
49	the last two and refused on the first. An entry that breaks a rule is
50	refused before anything is queued. Of the environment, a variable whose
51	value is a secret, or names a person or a host, is read for whether it is
52	set and nothing more; a shell is its basename from a closed list.
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54	`hooks/register.ts` is the module; `types/index.d.ts` is the noun's contract,
55	the one declaration of `$.telemetry` that this mod's hooks, a mod calling the
56	noun and a test answering it all read.
57
58	## What it hooks
59
60	`engine.create`: `{ ...await next(e), telemetry }`, so the noun is added and
61	nothing beneath is replaced. `telemetry.*`, the gate: a caller in the
62	built-in tier (or the engine) goes on, any other is refused, and a gate
63	that throws refuses too. `session.start`, to learn whether a person is at
64	the prompt; `session.end`, to send what still waits.
65
66	## What it calls on `$`
67
68	`session.authorize`, `session.id`, `session.model`, `session.surfaces`,
69	`session.cwd`, `session.repo`, `settings.read`, `env.get` (the switches and
70	the describing variables, by literal name), `fs.read`, `fs.list`,
71	`fs.exists`, `process.run` (one `sh -c` of `uname` and `command -v`),
72	`clock.after`, `clock.sleep`, `http.fetch` and `ui.log` (to the debug log),
73	each on the interface the fold handed it.
74
75	## Where it runs, whom it serves
76
77	This plugin is seated by the CLI itself, on every build whose own analytics
78	are on, and nowhere else; it serves the plugins bundled with the CLI and
79	refuses every other caller. It is not meant to be installed or loaded with
80	`--plugin-dir`; the folder has a manifest so it reads like every other
81	plugin, not so it can stand alone. A built-in that calls `$.telemetry`
82	where this one is absent finds no such noun and should treat that as "no
83	analytics here".