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Security and data

Security and data

Local storage, model providers, export, and delete: what Excellent keeps on your machine, what your agent still sends out, and how to remove it.


Excellent runs locally by default and records work on your machine.

excellent doctor

Expected result: Excellent prints the runtime it resolved, the local database path, detected providers and coding CLIs, the keystore state, and whether telemetry is on. Telemetry is opt-in and off by default.

Your agent still sends context to its model provider according to that agent's own settings. Excellent does not make that traffic local.

Local data lives under ~/.excellent/, or wherever EXCELLENT_DATA_DIR points. The database is a file; copy it to export it. There is no excellent export command and no excellent uninstall.

Delete everything Excellent recorded:

rm -rf ~/.excellent

That is irreversible.