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Summary

Layer 2 of the telemetry stack (base: #8293). Adds the proxy side of anonymous, default-on (opt-out) product telemetry, following devlog/_plan/261107_telemetry_dashboard/010_client_core.md.

• Default on, but nothing is sent until a person has seen the notice. resolveTelemetryStatus checks in this order: OCX_TELEMETRY=0 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 → off; declined → off; accepted → on; undecided → on only after noticeShownAt is recorded.
• Agents can't switch it on. An agent-driven, non-TTY or OCX_SERVICE start prints a once-per-version notice and records nothing. PUT /api/telemetry requires a human dashboard session. ocx telemetry enable requires an interactive terminal and refuses agent-driven use. ocx config set/unset refuse the telemetry key, and config import keeps the stored block unchanged. AGENTS_INSTALL.md documents this boundary.
• Closed-vocabulary payload. The import-free src/telemetry/contract.ts holds the closed rosters and a strict validator. Each daily report carries a per-day hash of a random install id (never the id itself), version, OS, arch, install channel, active minutes, request outcomes, five non-overlapping token buckets by provider kind and model family, and closed failure-cause counts. Provider keys, labels, URLs, model ids outside the families, accounts, hosts and paths are never read into the payload.
• Scheduler. It is started from background-lifecycle.ts through a dynamic import and is dormant until telemetry is in effect. It re-reads config on every 6 h tick, never sends the notice day or earlier, never sends days covered by an env opt-out, sends at most one day per tick, uses a 10 s timeout, and stops in stopProcessLoops and on drain. tests/preload.ts sets OCX_TELEMETRY=0. The collector URL is a constant.
• Collector not deployed yet. telemetry.opencodex.me does not exist yet. A DNS failure or a 404 ends the tick as send-failed with no log line and no state change, and the day is retried later. The first tick runs 30–90 s after startup on an unref'd timer, so startup and requests never wait on it.
• Surfaces. GET /api/telemetry (status plus a preview of the exact payload), ocx telemetry status|enable|disable, and a disclosure block plus Y/n prompt (default yes) on the first interactive ocx start, in ocx service install and in ocx init. structure/telemetry.md owns the new areas, and the skill surface is regenerated.
• Published privacy statement. README.md, the seven readme/README.*.md, reference/code-signing.md (en, tr) and SPONSORS.md now describe the daily summary, when sending starts, and every way to turn it off. They change in this layer because it is the first that can send.

The core request path is untouched: router.ts, lifecycle.ts, responses/core.ts and management-api.ts have no load-time path to src/telemetry/, and a boundary test pins this.

Review round 2

• Env opt-out days of a long-running proxy (Ingwannu, blocking 2). A proxy started under OCX_TELEMETRY=0 reads the env once and runs no ticks, so it recorded ineligibleThroughDay only for its start day. After it ran Monday to Thursday and restarted without the variable, the first tick sent Tuesday.
  • Failing first: 8f0b86e5e8 adds tests that drive the real background lifecycle with a mocked clock, for a period ended by a crash and by a clean stop. On that commit the D2 tests fail 0 pass / 3 fail, and the client sends 2026-11-03, an opt-out day.
  • Fix: a09bb51698. Observing the opt-out also persists an envOptOutActiveSince marker. While it is set nothing is eligible. The opted-out proxy's clean stop, or the first tick without the opt-out, closes the period: every day through the closing day stays ineligible and the marker is cleared. A crash costs at most the restart day.
• Privacy statement (Ingwannu, blocking 1). It was already on this layer; SPONSORS.md ("opencodex does not collect any" telemetry) was missed and is fixed here.
• Collector not deployed. 11a0f8ff10 pins the quiet failure for a DNS error and a 404.
• Zero sends before the notice. ed53c2e99c (see SignPath compliance).
• Decline on a fresh install. ocx telemetry disable failed with "config.json is missing" before the first start, which is exactly when the installer opt-out arrives. b4dd934048 creates the config the way a first start does, carrying the decision (failing-first test in cli-telemetry.test.ts).

SignPath compliance

SignPath Foundation's conditions, "Respect user privacy and security": "Software that collects user data and transfers it to systems not specified by the user must a) describe this behavior in a privacy policy, b) display this policy during installation and c) include installation options to disable these functions." The owner kept telemetry default-on and decided the stack satisfies all three:

• (a) This layer's privacy statement (README and translations, code-signing page en/tr, SPONSORS.md), plus the telemetry guide in docs(telemetry): telemetry and privacy guide plus configuration reference #8305.
• (b, c) for the MSI: feat(desktop): Windows installer page to disclose telemetry and opt out at install time #8348, the next layer, adds the installer page with the policy link and a "Send anonymous usage statistics" checkbox (checked by default), and persists an opt-out before any proxy runs.
• (b, c) for the standalone ocx.exe and npm installs: nothing is sent before noticeShownAt, and the notice (CLI prompt or dashboard popup) shows the summary and offers disabling. ed53c2e99c adds a test over ten undecided days of ticks: zero sends and no install id until the notice, then only later days.

This PR merges only after #8348 is in the stack and has passed its reviews and CI.

Review round 3 (head 5b88d16aea)

• ocx init after an early opt-out (Ingwannu, blocking): a decision made before config.json exists is held as pendingDecision in telemetry-state.json instead of creating a full config. withPendingTelemetryDecision applies it until the config carries a decision. The dashboard popup on a fresh install no longer returns 503. (04abd39ee2, failing-first tests.)
• Live save erased a CLI decision (review P2): saveConfigPreservingClaudeCode carries the on-disk telemetry block. (5f0e29c10a; failing-first tests/config/telemetry-live-save.test.ts; the 83 files that use this save path pass, 2,496 tests.)
• Second proxy ended a running opt-out (privacy P2): opted-out proxies record their pid, a tick ends the period only once none is alive, and a clean stop always covers its stop day. (5b88d16aea, failing-first test.)
• Hardening:
  • an unreadable telemetry-state.json blocks sending;
  • a deleted install id is never served from memory;
  • state code moved to src/telemetry/state.ts, so server start no longer loads the scheduler;
  • GET /api/telemetry reads consent from disk and caches the preview aggregate for 10 minutes;
  • everReported stops opt-out cycles from counting as new installs;
  • the disclosure says env opt-outs must reach the proxy's own environment;
  • AGENTS_INSTALL.md matches the code.
• Verification at 5b88d16aea (isolated home): typecheck, privacy scan, structure check, and 552 focused and guard tests pass, 0 fail.

Review round 4 (head 7aee518625)

• Whole-config saves (round-3 P3s): saveConfig now carries the on-disk telemetry block like the live save does, so a decline written by another process between a load and a save is never rolled back. Both saves carry the block only when it validates; a malformed hand edit is dropped as a load drops it, instead of being adopted into the live config, which had made unrelated route validations fail. The shared helper is src/config/telemetry-carry.ts.
• Unreadable telemetry-state.json: a writer that replaces it starts from "nothing through today may be sent", and the status preview reports nothing eligible while every tick refuses to send.
• Tests: failing-first in tests/config/telemetry-live-save.test.ts and tests/usage/usage-telemetry-client.test.ts.
• Verification at 7aee518625 (isolated home): typecheck, privacy scan, structure check, and 554 focused and guard tests pass, 0 fail across 28 files. Pushed with --no-verify.

Review round 5 (head 0a0ea74462)

• Unreadable state file (both reviews, P3, reproduced): the pre-send recheck now reads strictly and refuses with state-unreadable, and the bookkeeping writes after a send or a Retry-After leave such a file alone. Before, they rewrote it from an empty state, so a later tick could send days covered by an env opt-out.
• Corrupt config.json (privacy P3, reproduced): a whole-config save over a file that exists but cannot be read keeps only a snapshot decline. Any other block is dropped, so a stale accept can no longer replace an unread decline; the install waits for the notice again.
• Lost opted-out owner (privacy P3): a proxy running under an env opt-out records itself again every 6 hours, so a state file rebuilt after corruption learns it again.
• Status: the snapshot reports stateUnreadable, and ocx telemetry status says sending is paused.
• Privacy statement: the README line (and its seven copies) and the code-signing privacy section (en, tr) name the per-day install hash, as the dashboard popup does.
• Tests: 4 failing-first tests in tests/usage/usage-telemetry-client.test.ts and tests/config/telemetry-live-save.test.ts.
• Verification (isolated home): typecheck, privacy scan, structure check, and 558 tests pass, 0 fail. Pushed with --no-verify.

Round 7 (head 37d09e9090, from the final reviews of 0a0ea74462)

• [P2] A save that creates config.json could resurrect an accept: without a config file, a whole-config save wrote the caller's in-memory telemetry block. The reviewer reproduced this sequence:

  1. A dashboard accept is adopted into a config-less proxy.
  2. ocx telemetry disable replaces it with a held decline.
  3. Any settings save creates config.json with the stale accept.
  4. The config's decision outranks the held one, so sending resumed.

  Without a readable config.json, only a snapshot decline now survives, and the held decision or the notice applies. A failing-first test covers it; the live-save tests now create a config holding a decision the way a person's decision reaches it.

• [P3] Unreadable state file: a recorded decision rebuilds an unreadable telemetry-state.json, which otherwise paused sending for good, and the status line says how. Any rebuild keeps every day through the UTC day six hours from now unsent, the window in which a forgotten opted-out proxy records itself again.

• [P3] Disclosure: the CLI notice names the per-day install hash, release channel and first-report flag. The privacy statement (README and its seven copies, code-signing en and tr) lists every field sent.

• Verification (isolated home): typecheck, privacy scan, structure check, and 560 tests pass, 0 fail. Pushed with --no-verify.

Rounds 8–10 (head f5a8ae01da)

• Retargeted to dev (3e5afbc660). docs(devlog): plan default-on (opt-out) telemetry and the opencodex.me usage dashboard #8293 landed, and GitHub reported a conflict, so origin/dev was merged in. The conflicts were in two plan files and the README translation manifest; the manifest hashes were recomputed from the merged README. A separate review found the net diff identical to the reviewed layer.
• Release evidence policy (d10d52849b). dev pins scripts/generate-ocx-skill-surface.ts, and this layer adds the telemetry command root to it, so a new ci v1 entry copies the latest one with only that blob updated. Security review passed; policy-check and the release tests pass 68/68.
• [P2] ocx config set noticeShownAt turned sending on (eec104730a). A config without a telemetry key was read as the telemetry block itself, so a top-level noticeShownAt, which agents may set, made an undecided install send. Consent is now read only from config.telemetry. The same commit makes an unreadable state file fail closed in more cases: an lstat error other than "missing", or an opt-out field present but invalid. It also makes a decision's rebuild of that file best effort, and the sender refuses redirects.
• [P2] Creating config.json could resurrect a held accept (25633e9c7a). A dashboard accept on a fresh install was held in telemetry-state.json and also copied into the running config. After ocx telemetry disable, initializePersistedConfigIfMissing wrote that stale accept into the new config.json. Two callers reach it: PUT /api/subagent-models (admin token only) and account selection. Config creation now keeps only an in-memory decline, and the route no longer copies a decision it only held as pending. Recording an opted-out proxy also drops dead pids and stays within the 64 entries a reader accepts.
• Malformed held decision (f5a8ae01da, from CodeRabbit). A held decline with a damaged timestamp still applies. Any other malformed held decision makes the state file unreadable, which blocks sending.
• Reviews at f5a8ae01da. The final fresh and privacy reviews both pass. The privacy review reproduced the rollback through the real management handlers and ocx telemetry disable: the result is declined with 0 fetches. Its reproduction fails 4 of 8 cases at eec104730a. One P3 is left as a follow-up: a rebuild of an unreadable state file that is not triggered by a decision can drop a held decline. That needs a hand edit, and the result is undecided, which does not send.

Verification

Run at f5a8ae01da in an isolated home (env -i, temporary HOME/OPENCODEX_HOME/CODEX_HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/TMPDIR):

• bun run typecheck (2,349 files), bun run privacy:scan, bun run structure:check: pass.
• Telemetry client, CLI, routes, live-save, background lifecycle, core boundary, core-lab boundary, skill-ocx, docs, test layout, file-size ratchet, repo hygiene, structure SSOT: 567 pass, 0 fail across 28 files.
• Every telemetry fix commit since 37d09e9090 adds failing-first tests. With the source reverted to the previous head, each new test fails; at f5a8ae01da they all pass.
• git merge-tree origin/dev f5a8ae01da: no conflicts.
• Earlier, at 88c5586e5f, bun run test:changed (2,367 files) gave 53,377 pass. Its 3 failures were environment-only, in codex-cli-update-apply, and fail the same way on the dev base.
• NOT RUN: full bun run test (shared host). ci:full covers the rest in CI.
• Pushed with --no-verify. The repository installs no pre-push hook, and the checks above ran by hand.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added anonymous daily usage reports after a notice is shown and not declined. Reports include usage summaries and exclude prompts, outputs, credentials, account details, hostnames, and file paths.
  • Added CLI and dashboard controls to check telemetry status, preview reports, and enable or disable telemetry. Enabling requires human confirmation in an interactive session; environment settings can also opt out.
  • Made project-wide aggregate statistics public.
  • General configuration commands no longer change telemetry settings; use the dedicated controls instead.

• Documentation

  • Updated privacy disclosures and telemetry guidance across the README, translations, and reference documentation.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds anonymous daily usage telemetry with consent controls, local identity and state, ledger aggregation, payload validation, and scheduled delivery. It adds CLI and management API controls, updates config handling, and revises privacy disclosures, documentation, capability references, and tests.

Changes: Telemetry consent and collection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry config and consent src/types.ts, src/types/telemetry.ts, src/types/config.ts, src/config/schema/*, src/config/telemetry-carry.ts, src/config.ts, src/config/live-reconcile.ts, src/config/diagnostics.ts, src/telemetry/consent.ts	Adds consent types and schema validation. Config save and import paths preserve persisted telemetry decisions. Diagnostics report malformed telemetry settings. Consent resolution applies environment overrides, saved decisions, and notice timestamps.
Telemetry state and daily delivery src/telemetry/state.ts, src/telemetry/install-id.ts, src/telemetry/contract.ts, src/telemetry/aggregate.ts, src/telemetry/payload.ts, src/telemetry/sender.ts, src/telemetry/scheduler.ts	Adds persisted telemetry state and install identity. It defines and validates the payload, aggregates eligible ledger entries, sends payloads with retry handling, and schedules eligible completed UTC days.
CLI and management controls src/cli/*, src/server/background-lifecycle.ts, src/server/management-api.ts, src/server/management/route-registry.ts, src/server/management/telemetry-routes.ts	Adds CLI status, enable, and disable commands with human-confirmation requirements for enabling. Adds management API status and consent routes, and starts or stops telemetry scheduling with the server lifecycle.
Documentation and surface updates AGENTS_INSTALL.md, README.md, readme/*, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/code-signing.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/tr/reference/code-signing.md, SPONSORS.md, structure/*, skills/ocx/references/*, scripts/*, .github/scripts/release-evidence-policy.json, devlog/_plan/261107_telemetry_dashboard/*	Updates privacy disclosures and telemetry documentation. Adds telemetry to capability references and test-layout metadata. Updates plan notes and localization hashes.
Telemetry behavior validation tests/cli/cli-telemetry.test.ts, tests/config/telemetry-live-save.test.ts, tests/server/server-telemetry-routes.test.ts, tests/usage/usage-telemetry-client.test.ts, tests/usage/usage-telemetry-core-boundary.test.ts, tests/fixtures/*, tests/preload.ts	Adds tests for consent, config preservation, management routes, aggregation, scheduling, opt-out state, sender behavior, and import boundaries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Human
  participant TelemetryCLI
  participant ManagementAPI
  participant TelemetryRoutes
  participant TelemetryState
  Human->>TelemetryCLI: run ocx telemetry status, enable, or disable
  TelemetryCLI->>ManagementAPI: request status or submit consent decision
  ManagementAPI->>TelemetryRoutes: dispatch /api/telemetry
  TelemetryRoutes->>TelemetryState: read or persist consent state
  TelemetryRoutes-->>TelemetryCLI: return status snapshot or response

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Possibly related PRs

• lidge-jun/opencodex#8293: Adds the telemetry plan files that this pull request updates and implements.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review b2386

The change is mergeable with owner awareness of the remaining telemetry limitations, including narrow cross-process opt-out races, misleading status or command output, and reporting inaccuracies. Add the missing architecture-document mappings; the accepted PID-reuse behavior only delays reporting.

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Recheck consent after aggregation and before transmission

If a user disables telemetry while the cooperative ledger scan is running, this tick still transmits its payload: consent is checked only before the awaited aggregation, and neither the disable handlers nor nudgeTelemetryScheduler() cancel the active tick. On a large ledger, the user can receive a successful disable response before this POST even starts. Re-read persisted consent immediately before sending and cancel active work when consent is withdrawn.

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Aggregate ledger entries without retaining the entire history

For installations with a large usage ledger, every scheduled report and telemetry-status request retains every parsed historical row in entries, even though only one day's aggregate is needed. This defeats the scanner's bounded-memory design and can exhaust the proxy's memory; storage cleanup is disabled by default, so the retained history can continue growing. Accumulate counters during onEntry instead of collecting the full ledger, and discard out-of-day entries immediately.

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Report unavailable consent mutations as CLI failures

When config.json is missing or invalid, or a mutation exhausts its rebase attempts, mutatePersistedConfig() returns { status: "unavailable" } without throwing. This helper discards that result, so ocx telemetry enable and disable can exit successfully and announce a change that was never persisted. In the conflict case, a purported disable can leave the accepted decision intact and allow subsequent sends. Check the mutation outcome and return an actionable error before reporting success or deleting the identifier.

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Document telemetry controls in the public documentation

This adds user-visible telemetry consent, persistent configuration, environment overrides, and enable/disable commands without updating docs-site/. A repository-wide search of that directory finds no documentation for these product-telemetry controls; the new structure document and agent skill references do not replace public user documentation. Add a public explanation of what is transmitted, when sending starts, how to preview it, and how to opt out. This violates the explicit docs-sync requirement in src/AGENTS.md.

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[Ingwannu]

Reviewed layer 2 at 3fe36521 (the full 55-file diff from 11a0f8ff, plus ed53c2e9/b4dd9340). I focused on what can send data and when. Most of it holds; one regression from b4dd9340 needs a fix.

What I checked and found correct

• No send before a human sees the notice. resolveTelemetryStatus is effective only for accepted, or for noticeShownAt without a decision. Only a TTY prompt, ocx telemetry enable (TTY, not agent/CI/OCX_SERVICE) or a human-session PUT /api/telemetry writes either value. ocx config set/unset telemetry is refused, and config import keeps the persisted block (D6). The new ten-day zero-send test covers this.
• Env opt-out. It is honored at scheduler start, on every tick and again right before sending (scheduler.ts:273, :323). background-lifecycle.ts records the marker even when the scheduler never starts, closes it on a clean stop, and the first tick closes it after a crash. ineligibleThroughDay only moves forward (:132, :149), so a clock step back cannot reopen days. Days before consent (D1), days covered by a decline (re-enabling sets a new decidedAt) and days covered by an env opt-out cannot be sent.
• Re-check before sending (D7). Consent, env and day eligibility are all re-read after aggregation. Ticks abort on stop and on a consent nudge.
• Payload. It uses closed rosters and an exact-key validator on both sides. Provider and model names map to buckets, unknown ones go to other, and nothing free-form is sent. batchId is a random UUID. installDayHash = sha256(uuid:day), so the collector cannot link reports across days and cannot reverse the hash to the id.
• Privacy statement (D12). README, all seven translations, both code-signing.md pages and SPONSORS.md change in this layer, as requested in #8293.

Blocking

• src/cli/telemetry.ts:93-101 (b4dd9340): ocx telemetry disable on a fresh install now creates a full config.json from getDefaultConfig(). runInit (src/cli/init.ts:125-128) treats any existing file as configured and returns "Keeping existing config … Use ocx config or the dashboard", so the setup wizard never runs. That hits exactly the privacy-minded flow the docs suggest (install → ocx telemetry disable → ocx init). The desktop installer opt-out in #8303 also reaches this path on first launch. Please carry the decline without turning the install into a configured one. Options: let init adopt a pre-existing telemetry block from an otherwise-default config, or keep a pending decline outside config.json (e.g. in telemetry-state.json) and fold it in when the config is first created. Please add a test for telemetry disable followed by init.

Non-blocking

• Env vars only reach the proxy process. A service started by systemd/launchd/Task Scheduler does not see an OCX_TELEMETRY=0 exported in an interactive shell, but the CLI disclosure line (telemetry.ts:39) presents it as "Turn off anytime" with no qualifier. ocx telemetry status shows the truth, but either name the service case there, or have ocx service install carry OCX_TELEMETRY/DO_NOT_TRACK into the unit when they are set at install time.
• AGENTS_INSTALL.md:58-62 says ocx config set telemetry refuses agent callers with agent_consent_required. It actually refuses every caller with a usage error (config-command.ts).
• Every decline or env opt-out deletes the id, and the next report then carries newInstall: true again. That inflates the dashboard's new-install count. Consider keeping a separate firstReportEverSent marker, or document the effect.
• background-lifecycle.ts:69 copies the env parser from consent.ts:45 (it is statically imported from scheduler anyway). Reuse isTelemetryEnvOptOut so the two cannot drift.
• README line 501 says the telemetry "can be turned off at install time in that prompt". That only becomes true with the MSI page in #8303, so these two layers need to land together (D21).

CI on this head is still running (an earlier run of this stack fails release-version-line because the stack base predates the v2.99.0 tag on dev; a rebase should clear it). The SignPath hold in the description still applies.

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Blocking: creating a full default config.json here makes the next ocx init exit at init.ts:125-128 ("Keeping existing config") without running provider setup. Trigger: a fresh install, then ocx telemetry disable (or the #8303 installer opt-out on first desktop launch), then ocx init. Please store the decline in a way init still treats as a fresh install, and add a disable-then-init test.

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Fixed in 04abd39ee2 (head 5b88d16aea). A decision made before config.json exists is no longer written as a config. It is held as pendingDecision in telemetry-state.json, and withPendingTelemetryDecision applies it wherever consent is resolved (scheduler, status route, CLI prompt) until a decision is written into the config, which clears it. The new test in tests/cli/cli-telemetry.test.ts runs ocx telemetry disable on a fresh home and asserts observeInitialConfigState() === "missing" (so ocx init runs setup). It also checks that the decline still holds after a config is created later and that a tick then sends nothing. It failed first on 3fe36521d5. The dashboard popup on a fresh install used the same path and returned 503; it now holds the decision too (route test, also failing first).

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[lidge-jun]

@Ingwannu, thanks for the review at 3fe36521. Each point is addressed at the current head, f5a8ae01da.

Blocking: ocx telemetry disable before ocx init. Fixed in 04abd39ee2. A decision made before config.json exists is no longer written as a full default config. It is held as pendingDecision in telemetry-state.json and applies until the config carries its own decision, so ocx init still runs provider setup. The failing-first test is tests/cli/cli-telemetry.test.ts: "disable on a fresh install keeps the install fresh for ocx init and the decline survives config creation". Later rounds closed two ways a held decline could be rolled back once config.json is created:

• from a whole-config save (37d09e9090);
• from initializePersistedConfigIfMissing, through PUT /api/subagent-models or account selection (25633e9c7a).

Non-blocking:

• Env opt-out and services: the CLI disclosure now says the variable must be in the proxy's own environment and that a service does not see variables set in your shell.
• AGENTS_INSTALL.md: it now says ocx config set/unset telemetry refuse every caller.
• newInstall inflation: a persistent everReported marker in telemetry-state.json keeps decline and opt-out cycles from counting as new installs.
• Duplicated env parser: background-lifecycle.ts now imports isTelemetryEnvOptOut from consent.ts.
• README installer sentence (D21): this PR merges only after feat(desktop): Windows installer page to disclose telemetry and opt out at install time #8348 (the MSI page) has passed its reviews and CI. The two layers land together.
• release-version-line: cleared by retargeting to dev and merging it in (3e5afbc660).

The final fresh and privacy reviews both pass at f5a8ae01da. The privacy review reproduced the fresh-install accept → disable → config-creation sequence through the real management handlers: it ends declined with zero sends. The description's "Rounds 8–10" section lists every change since your review. Could you take another look?

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Distinguish reused PIDs when tracking opt-out owners.

If an opted-out proxy crashes and an unrelated process reuses its PID, ticks can retain the stale owner and block reports for the lifetime of that process. Track and verify a process-generation identity instead of PID alone.

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Review comment at @src/telemetry/state.ts around lines 295 - 300:
Update the opt-out owner tracking around the `owners` filter so a reused PID
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[lidge-jun]

Leaving this as is. A reused pid keeps a stale owner recorded, which only blocks sending, the privacy-safe direction. The block lasts until the unrelated process exits, the next clean stop of an opted-out proxy, or a rebuild. The pid-only liveness check is an accepted residual from earlier review rounds. Verifying a process generation would need a different start-time API on Linux, macOS and Windows, only to resume sends sooner in a rare crash-plus-reuse case that already fails closed.

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@lidge-jun Understood. A reused PID can delay telemetry sends, and you accept that tradeoff. I’ll leave the implementation as is.

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[lidge-jun]

@Ingwannu, a short follow-up on your one blocking item, at the current head e27855ead2. That commit is an empty CI retrigger on c837c6ae6d, with an identical tree.

ocx telemetry disable on a fresh install, then ocx init: fixed in 04abd39ee2. A decision made before config.json exists is held as pendingDecision in telemetry-state.json, and no config.json is created, so ocx init still runs provider setup. The decline applies until the config records its own decision.

• Regression test: tests/cli/cli-telemetry.test.ts, "disable on a fresh install keeps the install fresh for ocx init and the decline survives config creation".
• Windows (mini, real installed sidecar CLI): disable in a fresh home created no config.json and recorded pendingDecision=declined. A later config import kept declined, a 45 s proxy run made 0 sends, and cli-telemetry passed 15/0 on Windows.
• Later hardening: the held decline also survives a whole-config save (37d09e9090) and config.json creation through PUT /api/subagent-models or account selection (25633e9c7a).

Your non-blocking notes:

• Service env: the CLI disclosure now says OCX_TELEMETRY=0 / DO_NOT_TRACK=1 must be in the proxy's own environment, and that a service does not see variables set in your shell.
• AGENTS_INSTALL.md: now says ocx config set/unset telemetry refuse every caller.
• newInstall inflation: an everReported marker in telemetry-state.json keeps decline and opt-out cycles from counting as new installs.
• Duplicated env parser: background-lifecycle.ts imports isTelemetryEnvOptOut from consent.ts.
• README installer sentence: this layer's privacy line now says only "in that notice". The "in the Windows installer" wording lives in feat(desktop): Windows installer page to disclose telemetry and opt out at install time #8348, and the two will merge back to back.

Could you re-review when you have a moment?

[lidge-jun]

Maintainer judgment (head ef03c55307)

Value. This is the client core of the owner-requested anonymous usage telemetry (plan in #8293, landed as fac611ea5b). It is the first layer that can send, and it carries the published privacy statement (README and its 7 translations, the code-signing page in en/tr, SPONSORS.md) that SignPath condition (a) requires. No other PR implements it; #8348, #8303, #8304, #8305 and #8308 build on it.

UX. Every user-visible change is intentional and documented in the PR description, structure/telemetry.md and AGENTS_INSTALL.md:

• A one-time disclosure and Y/n prompt on the first interactive ocx start, ocx service install or ocx init. Agent-driven, non-TTY and OCX_SERVICE runs print one notice per version and record nothing. The prompt is wrapped so it can never interrupt startup.
• New ocx telemetry status|enable|disable commands and GET/PUT /api/telemetry. ocx config set/unset telemetry is refused, and config import keeps the stored block.
• Telemetry defaults to on, but nothing is sent until a person has seen the notice or decided.
• Request handling is unchanged: tests/usage/usage-telemetry-core-boundary.test.ts proves router.ts, server/lifecycle.ts, responses/core.ts and management-api.ts have no load-time path to src/telemetry/.

No regression for existing users.

• Existing configs without a telemetry block load unchanged, with status "awaiting notice" and nothing sent. Whole-config saves carry the block stored on disk (src/config/telemetry-carry.ts).
• On a fresh install, ocx telemetry disable creates no config.json, so ocx init still runs provider setup. Fixed in 04abd39ee2; the regression test is tests/cli/cli-telemetry.test.ts "disable on a fresh install keeps the install fresh for ocx init and the decline survives config creation". Also verified on Windows on mini.
• Every fix round added tests that failed before the fix: the env opt-out period, live saves, unreadable state, the top-level noticeShownAt bypass (eec104730a), config creation rolling back a decline (25633e9c7a), and a malformed held decision (f5a8ae01da).
• Focused tests at this head, in an isolated home: typecheck, privacy:scan and structure:check pass, 567 telemetry, layout, ratchet and boundary tests pass with 0 failures, the 334 docs tests pass with 0 failures, and the release-evidence policy-check and skill:surface --check pass.

Reviews.

• The final fresh review and the separate privacy review passed at f5a8ae01da.
• Every later change was a dev merge or a CI retrigger. Each merge was reviewed (latest: PASS at this exact head ef03c55307), and the release-evidence policy resolution passed a security review at c837c6ae6d.
• Ingwannu's one blocking item is fixed (see above, and comments 6723009892 and 6729400991). His non-blocking notes were all handled.

CI. All 38 checks passed on ef03c55307, including gates, ci, all five test shards (test 1/5–5/5), structure gate, docker smoke and CodeQL Analyze (actions, go, javascript-typescript, rust). The branch also merges cleanly into current dev (2bf8ec6c19).

Decision: merge (squash, --admin because Ingwannu's earlier change request is still open on GitHub, as the owner decided on 2026-11-09).