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Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

207 points csmantle 13 hours ago 83 comments

denysvitali 12 hours ago | parent

They learned nothing from the Grok Code saga.

If anything, that should have been a learning lesson to NOT trust harnesses, especially new ones.

throwa356262 6 hours ago | parent

Hold on, what happened with grok?

numpad0 6 hours ago | parent

Probably anything concerning that one just register as satirical fictions at this moment to many

ngl999 12 hours ago | parent

Fresh AI slop

The funniest thing is that the uploaded content is encrypted using a key that the users don't have.

evanjrowley 11 hours ago | parent

There had to be a catch to the "free" promotion they're offering this month if you use ZCode. Glad my instinct to isolate it helped me, but I feel sorry for anyone whose secrets, etc. got vacuumed up by Ziphu

mococa 8 hours ago | parent

That’s explains the 300 million of tokens on the weekend only if you use their tool.

nullbio 3 hours ago | parent

It explains why they were letting people use their model for free too.

dude250711 8 hours ago | parent

Is this a step forward compared to previous distillations or a step backwards?

theplumber 8 hours ago | parent

Ohhh no another one found that agents don’t actually run locally. We already had the “grok uploads all my stuff to Google cloud bucket” news…

next I can’t wait to see news about “ai company is using my data without my consent” as well.

ThouYS 6 hours ago | parent

wait, the thing that streams my code into the cloud, and that I let run basically arbitrary commands on my machine... uploads my code into the cloud?! I didn't sign up for this!

tancop 8 hours ago | parent

Closed source agents are a red flag no matter if its China or America. Always use an open harness with a good reputation and enough users that someone will notice if they push malicious code like this one here. Right now that's Opencode and Pi.

hypfer 8 hours ago | parent

I wouldn't list Opencode as "good reputation".

They had their own unbound "harness scans the whole user directory" oopsie and handled concerns about that by introducing code signing.

Which, yes, does have absolutely nothing to do with that issue.

I guess by now it is better, but to me they seem to lack the engineering culture necessary for a "good reputation" stamp.

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Ref: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/14925#issuecomm...

among other issues.

blfr 8 hours ago | parent

Why?

edude03 8 hours ago | parent

Their reputation is “bad” but not because of privacy concerns. I personally think they’re trustworthy

my-huge-pony 7 hours ago | parent

We use opencode with self hosted llm for privacy reasons. Good, right? Well, no, because opencode by default uses a "free" cloud model to summarize all chats even if a different model was configured as the main one.

I wonder how many opencode users upload their private secrets to the cloud, while thinking they're using a self hosted model.

Btw. I don't think this is malicious, just sloppy.

esafak 6 hours ago | parent

It uses gpt-5-nano through OpenCode Zen to generate the title unless you override `small_model`. https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#self-hosted-gitlab

gwerbin 8 hours ago | parent

How about the one where if you start a session outside of a Git repository, the "worktree root" is set to /. Bug report closed as "not planned".

hypfer 8 hours ago | parent

FWIW, I don't think that they're being malicious. They instead just seem to have no idea nor do they care.

And the original comment I've replied to proves this strategy right! So from a business standpoint: excellent work.

bbor 7 hours ago | parent

Glad my arbitrary failure to try them has worked out! For people seeking OS-native harnesses, I can recommend Factory's Droid. I know I'll be returning to it with my head hung low today, after I uninstall ZCode.

It does have a "mission" feature that's stuck in the strange, distant times of 2025 by way overdoing mandatory verification steps, which means they don't support swarms/workflows/crews/fleets yet -- that is, it's all done in sequence. But they have the boring, corporate engineering attitude that I think we're are all craving rn, and generally seem competent.

I can heartily dis-recommend Vix, even though they gamed themselves to the top of at least one ranking site that shall not be named; exactly like the quasi-bad-faith incompetence described with OpenCode above, but without even the "Open-" branding! Though perhaps that word has been so thoroughly burnt as a prefix by Sam Altman & Microsoft's criminal behavior that we should let it go...

Is this how "FLOSS" wins over "OSS"? Not with an ideological bang, but with a marketing issue?

hypfer 7 hours ago | parent

> Is this how "FLOSS" wins over "OSS"? Not with an ideological bang, but with a marketing issue?

Nah, I don't think so. Also, we arguably do not want FLOSS to "win" over OSS, because that just means people with no taste or sense cluttering up the repos, issues and support chats.

"Open" being used as a signal for non-hacker people was a weird and unpleasant development, but, if you think about it, it might be a blessing in disguise and shall keep them away from the more pleasant spaces.

It's not that they'd care about being scammed, mistreated and rug-pulled anyway. They want that. They do it themselves all the time. Every time they encounter a space that treats them well, they terraform it into baseline miserable-ness.

So let them have the "Open" prefix. It's just words, anyway.

bbor 6 hours ago | parent

This is kinda beside the point and this whole thread may be wiped when dang wakes up and notices the AI slop article we're commending under, but your reply is thought provoking so I'll attempt a response anyway;

I'm sure you're far more experienced than I with basically every aspect of this discussion, but I'd argue that's given you a blindspot, here. I'll hit some specifics below, but the headline is that you're effectively taking a stand against Eternal September II -- a goal that I hope we can all agree would be quixotically antisocial, given what followed the first one!

  we arguably do not want FLOSS to "win" over OSS
I think(/hope) that fellow FLOSS proponents would passionately disagree. FLOSS isn't a brand of chatroom, nor even merely a community: it's an ethos regarding labor, property, and liberty. Demanding that all users of your software are also activists for your particular take on intellectual property is clearly a doomed undertaking for anything beyond a toy or library, anyway.

Didn't you get into this stuff to change the world? To liberate the oppressed, undereducated, and forgotten with the radical power of the information superhighway? Cause it reads here like you're more motivated by selfishness (not wanting to bother talking to people with less expertise than you) and resentment. On that note...

  They want that. They do it themselves all the time.
Here you equate "non-hacker people" with software engineers you don't agree with, it seems. You're ofc welcome to think companies X Y & Z produce "miserable-ness", but as absurd as it sounds, it sure seems like you've forgotten the fact that some users are not developers. Many, in fact! Over 99%, even!

Less confrontationally; my mom is in her late 60s, and is pretty computer-literate for her age after decades of knowledge work. Surely you'd agree that she's not, like, evil for using OSX, iOS, GMail, Word, etc.? That she didn't chose those things because of a philosophical commitment to defending IP laws, but rather because of structural reasons? Even if she were pro-IP, wouldn't we want to win good, well-meaning people to our side?

  So let them have the "Open" prefix. It's just words, anyway.
I do agree with this still, but as a philosopher I just have to say that everything is just words. It's language games, in fact! Which is why I simply had to reply.

I hope none of the above was rude; I'm trying hard to keep my passion for this topic from pushing me past HN guidelines :)

hypfer 5 hours ago | parent

Cutting things short:

> but I'd argue that's given you a blindspot, here

I'd argue it's the opposite. The idealism there _is_ the blindspot. Not the other way round.

You can't save everyone. And you will die trying.

That's the first thing that gets (or should get) hammered into people's heads when they pick up a career in all things social.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't dream, but I believe that our dreams should be optimized for maximum gain with minimum pain.

mikkelam 7 hours ago | parent

codex is also open source, though im not so sure about the reputation aspect.

The same can be said about opencode though.

api 8 hours ago | parent

Lots of modern software plays it loose with privacy, but this IMO crossing a second line: doing so with zero notification whatsoever, in a massively intrusive way, against data that is almost certainly private and possibly illegal to exfiltrate, with no obvious way to turn it off.

That crosses into outright malware.

Makes me not want to use GLM or other Z.ai models either, since who knows what interesting easter eggs are embedded in their training data.

You know... (puts on foil hat)... I did notice that Z is also the weird Russian logo for their invasion of Ukraine and Russia and China have cooperated to some degree (or at least China is helping Russia in exchange for access to resources). I dismissed this when I first thought of it, but I will now leave it here. Still probably coincidence but my Bayesian priors were just updated in its direction very slightly.

menaerus 7 hours ago | parent

How do you know this is not true with other vendors? I'm not defending them but I wouldn't believe anyone in this business unconditionally. Anthropic agent fwiw is not open source, gemini and codex are.

nullbio 3 hours ago | parent

People have found many nasties embedded in Claude Code over the last couple of years. You can't trust a closed source harness. You can barely trust an open source one.

loh 8 hours ago | parent

I recently began playing around with ZCode. Works pretty well. Super sketchy though if it is in fact silently uploading full git history of every user's projects. This is why we need not only open weight models, but open source harnesses as well. Luckily the project I'm trying ZCode on is already open source (Molecule.dev), and I'm already allowing full telemetry with my other agents/harnesses (e.g., Claude) for this particular project, so it's not a huge deal in my case, but it's obviously a huge deal for anything proprietary.

r_lee 7 hours ago | parent

I would never trust these Chinese vendors with their tooling or their own inference endpoints.

afaik DeepSeek also trained on everything that was sent to them via OR and that's why you got that massive discount

bbor 7 hours ago | parent

WOW. I actually did buy a month of GLM because GLM-5.3-Flash is so great and ZCode is honestly one of the best harnesses out there from an HCI perspective, and I won't lie, this is pretty gutting. I guess this settles my inner turmoil about open-sourcing my cAI research, at least...

With that personal failing in mind, I'd ask y'all to permit me to toe the guidelines just once, to proffer a hearty nyah nyah told ya so on a comment thread that spawned ~a dozen disagreeing replies this week! More seriously, I think this[1] is highly-relevant, shockingly-underreported context about the extent to which four PRC companies --Z, Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot-- are acting in bad faith. Consider it testimony as to their character, just in case anyone is thinking this might just be a simple misunderstanding.

So... nyah nyah, told us so:

> In the PRC, they[1] leaked tons of national secrets on the PRC's latest AI campaigns, the inner workings of their "opinion monitoring" (read: performative panopticon) and "stability" (read: violent oppression) departments, Chengdu's whole CCTV network, direct-energy weapons plans, espionage activities in Syria to hunt down Uyghur refugees, and god knows what else that Anthropic didn't divulge to us common folk.

> In the US, it's very clearly an attempt to rip off a competitor. I'm not sure how else you could possibly see it. Even if you're a distillation fan in general (which A. why and B. plz don't), they did this through a network of Japanese and Signaporean shell accounts, presumably at least some of which were abusing Anthropic's subscription service in a ToS double-whammy, as it would be exorbitantly expensive otherwise. They also had to hack around Anthropic's API to get CoT traces, which seems impossible to explain away as anything innocent.

> I've been beating the "China isn't necessarily an enemy, it's gonna take us all to handle AI" drum for literally years, but this attack was just... gross. Gross in scale and gross in arrogance. Not a good sign for the dawning alignment crisis, to say the least :(

> TL;DR: Use these services if you want, but know that you're supporting aggressive escalations and companies that very clearly don't give a flying fuck about violating the law, much less your ToS. So... buyer beware, I guess.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb... is the report.

I lowkey suspect this PRC-based scandal has been underreported because Anthropic went insane with the sidebar UX on this page for some reason; there were many reports on the reports of Houti and Iranian usage, and very few on these sections. Could a week's mass media cycle be this seriously affected by such a stupid thing as a sidebar experiment?? Strange truth, or just fiction?

yonghu1234 5 hours ago | parent

ummm...I'm a Chinese.(I'm not a English native speaker so my word choice may be strange.) In fact, what you said about PRC gov, sounds like something UFO or something Reptilians. I really don't know WHY do many social media tend to choose topics like this.

Maybe because most people are foolish? Because foolish'es mind is fond of topic that are crazely explosive and magical...?

BUT at the same time, have you experienced the Victorian era? Have you experience the cyberpunk2077? You can come to China. Big companies act without any rules.

Zhipu(GLM) are just common companies like any one another company here.

Here is a CARZYLY NEW WORLD. 99.99% goods are CRAZELY CHEAP while falsely advertising without supervision. 99.99% apps collect users' private info and then sell it. You can easily see it via almost no website even asks if you’re okay with them collecting cookies.

bbor 3 hours ago | parent

Oh :(

So for clarity I have nothing against Chinese people of any kind, from the PRC, from Taiwan, or otherwise. We’re all on the human side ofc, and I’m a passionate internationalist (antinationalist, even). My country (the US) is in the middle of a fascistic self-coup, so it’s definitely not about superiority.

That said, your comment about conspiracy theories… it’s hard to know how to talk about this productively. But, uh, I’m not exactly picking those examples from nowhere — those are drawn directly from anthropic’s report. The only one that could be arguably a little overstated is the one regarding Uyghur refugees in Syria, where the refugees are often also involved in militaristic activities (supposedly, idk, I haven’t visited).

I don’t want to trip censors, but you can read the report yourself and then type in the zh names for the two departments I mentioned to your local search engine. They’re not hidden or secret or anything, and they’re not exactly bashful about their role in aggressively silencing dissent, either. Again the US sucks, but so far we only have one of those agencies (the monitoring one), and it’s been a tense, lively national controversy since at least Snowden.

I recognize that the PRC sees democracy differently; to you, a world where everyone’s data is always available to the government through its state corporations might not sound so bad. But I beg of you to reconsider. Surely you know that you can’t speak up against the party without being punished, and potentially even sent away indefinitely? Surely that tugs at your heartstrings a little bit, even if you’ve come to ignore it day to day?

I used to work in display ads at Google, which is the economic driver for the vast, vast majority of data collection. I’m not sure what your (firewalled…) internet is like, but over here in the anglosphere the only thing that’s “99.99% crazily cheap” and still quality —that is, the only parts of the “free and open internet” that Google claims to sustain— is shitty mobile games, mostly b/c they can advertise other shitty mobile games in an infinite vicious cycle of whale hunting.

If you’re able to read this message and are interested in replying, I’d be curious to hear about your dreams for the world. Clearly AGI can’t coexist with capitalism, so both western liberal capitalism and your proletarian state capitalism will have to go. I personally think national identities are also a global death sentence in an AGI world, but that’s more controversial. But what else?

Do you dream of a world where you or your kid could say something dumb about politics and not get pulled into a secret court and punished unfairly? Like, regardless of how possible or easy it would be. Is it desirable, at least?

Your English is stellar btw, don’t stress :)

yonghu1234 5 hours ago | parent

It maybe a common mistake for WestEu/NorthAm people that China is like Soviet or North Korea.

It's diametrically opposite.

At the end of the last century, PRC gov deeply felt that the so-called "fairness" would only lead to "common poverty" and sought change.

So China (now, in this century) was born.

Just like the "famous"(notorious) quote left by a Chinese leader at the end of the last century explaining why restrictions were lifted (you can say this to ANY Chinese, they will definitely think you understand China! Instead of mocking you for reading too many conspiracy theories):

Whether it's a kind cat or an evil cat, as long as it catches a mouse, it's the best cat.

bbor 3 hours ago | parent

Okay but we’re the mice. Doesn’t that bother you?

philbo 7 hours ago | parent

Tangential, mildly amusing thing I noticed while implementing my own harness: GLM and particularly Deepseek are both fond of trying to read dotfiles and anything listed in your .gitignore files. I only noticed it because I have separate read scopes for project files, ignored files, dotfiles and external files, so the latter three always prompt me for approval.

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it, which has nothing at all to do with exfiltration of secrets, but it does amuse me when it happens. I imagine the labs have access to lots of secrets that various actors would like to get their hands on...

(shameless plug for my own harness, which is open source and doesn't have a backend to send any data to: https://www.opairdev.org/ )

alightsoul 7 hours ago | parent

Grok does or did the same thing, this is embarrasing

belowavgiq 6 hours ago | parent

Just my thoughts on the site:

It's good that the objective is to have the model work as a helper, but that's what everyone can already do with CC or Codex as long as you don't ask to "write this entire x thing". It's also what a billion other, often vibecoded, harnesses claim they can do.

Why should I use yours, which also forces me off my existing subscriptions? Maybe it's (mostly) handwritten, so it's mindful efficient code instead of slop, and each adjustment was made through trial and error with current models? maybe it IS slop but at least you have a unique feature? and so on and so forth.

sva_ 5 hours ago | parent

I tested GLM while working on some android app, the agent had adb access to the device. It suddenly went to the Gallery and started scrolling around, taking screenshots, lol. A friend had a similar experience with GLM where it would for no very clear reason start snooping through the filesystem.

Haven't used it after that.

princevegeta89 5 hours ago | parent

It is no longer surprising to me that my cursor acts as if it does not recognize the .env file, and while I am editing it, it does not give inline suggestions;

however...when it is debugging problems or responding to questions about the code, it will just say it read my env file and found xxx environment variables as a verification step, or sometimes it will even mention that I need to uncomment some environment variables in the env file, which makes the whole deal about security feel iffy giffy....

thehamkercat 2 hours ago | parent

i use sops

Encrypt: sops encrypt --input-type dotenv --output-type dotenv .env > secrets.enc.env

then rm .env

You can then run your script/dev with: sops exec-env secrets.enc.env 'docker xxxx' (it will ask you for your password, or touch-id to decrypt the secrets)

I like this because this way the .env doesn't sit in the directory at all, and is only passed to your dev environment and stays in it while it's running

Decrypt back to a file (if you ever want that): sops decrypt secrets.enc.env > .env

---

Well ofc, any agent can do docker inspect to get all those env vars, but atleast reading the dotfiles won't do anything

you can also edit the file with: sops --input-type dotenv --output-type dotenv secrets.enc.env

booi 1 hour ago | parent

1Password CLI has a similar feature I use all the time and share with the team.

v3ss0n 7 hours ago | parent

Never use a Harness if it is not opensourced.

DeepSeek Harness is my favorite for coding. Hermes is my favourite for Other things , followed by OpenCode (sucks at managing long running services) .

Others swear by Pi.dev

drdexebtjl 7 hours ago | parent

Z.ai are temporarily offering unlimited usage during off-peak hours with their harness, which is a pretty good deal if your project is public even with this news.

oathvz 6 hours ago | parent

All fun and game until it also silently uploads your other things.

DaSHacka 6 hours ago | parent

You could always sandbox it or run it in a container

lenerdenator 6 hours ago | parent

Shouldn't do that, either.

Mind and marketshare are currency in this space. Either these people are honest and deserve your trust and business, or they don't. They've been mischaracterizing the way they've been handling your data. Shut them off accordingly until they make things right.

DaSHacka 4 hours ago | parent

I mean, it's just basic access control. You don't need to trust every program you run with 100% of all your personal/private information, just confine it to a specific domain accordingly.

I'm fine with certain codebases and configs being shared, but not others, hence the sandbox/container recommendation. I suspect many others are the same way.

lenerdenator 4 hours ago | parent

It's less about access control and more about corporate behavior control. When you ask a contractor to come fix something about your home, you don't have to clarify to them that they shouldn't also be snooping around the bedroom drawers and taking pictures to be stored somewhere.

You shouldn't have to go and create zero-trust environments for things to operate in because tech companies can't be trusted to be honest and transparent about how they handle your data. It should be a given that they're up-front about what they do with it within the various terms and licenses, and easy to enforce those terms.

Those that cannot behave in such a way should get exactly zero of your business, even if the product is free and you can set up ways to block any sort of intrusions.

codedokode 3 hours ago | parent

You should use a sandbox. It is dumb to run any proprietary software without a sandbox, especially LLM-powered.

tontinton 6 hours ago | parent

Or https://maki.sh :)

v3ss0n 5 hours ago | parent

looks cool would be nice if its GUI , terminal have limitations .

aftbit 4 hours ago | parent

Funnily enough, I feel the exact opposite! The limitations of terminal make them portable while still being more than powerful enough. But then I've used vim as my editor for going on 15 years now so I'm biased.

wyrdcurt 3 hours ago | parent

ZCode is pretty bloated anyway, in my experience. I used it for a while because Z.ai offers a subscription usage multiplier for using it, but despite that, I found myself hitting limits less often when I switched to Pi (and performance is the same, if not better).

alightsoul 7 hours ago | parent

This sounds a lot like the same thing Openai did with navier stokes, but Openai is more stealthy about it.

hn1rig3rak 7 hours ago | parent

Built a similar read-scope gate and the fiddly bit was symlinks escaping the project root.

philbo 7 hours ago | parent

Crossposting from the other thread...

Tangential, mildly amusing thing I noticed while implementing my own harness: GLM and particularly Deepseek are both fond of trying to read dotfiles and anything listed in your .gitignore files. I only noticed it because I have separate read scopes for project files, ignored files, dotfiles and external files, so the latter three always prompt me for approval.

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it, which has nothing at all to do with exfiltration of secrets, but it does amuse me when it happens. I imagine the labs have access to lots of secrets that various actors would like to get their hands on...

(shameless plug for my own harness, which is open source and doesn't have a backend to send any data to: https://www.opairdev.org/ )

dang 54 minutes ago | parent

> Crossposting from the other thread

Please don't do that! It makes merging threads a pain.

If a thread is duplicate enough to be worth copy-pasting a comment to, it's hopefully worth taking the time to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com instead, so we can merge things. I'll do that in this case shortly. In the meantime, I've moved the replies to the parent so they're now replies to the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753547.

jimmydoe 7 hours ago | parent

Elon has nothing to lose on trust.

Z/GLM now has a lot to rebuild.

alansaber 7 hours ago | parent

"Why yes, we had to exfiltrate 100% of your data so we could vectorise it and improve recall by -0.3%"

weiran 6 hours ago | parent

I've been using ZCode since it's initial release and can't find any of this in my data. There aren't any logs showing capture or upload, and I don't even have a ~/.zcode/v2/checkpoints/ directory.

So unless they've cleared it all with a recent update then it doesn't seem to affect everyone.

nullbio 3 hours ago | parent

Is there actually any proof of this, beside this Claude written website and a random x post from some unknown person? Would be nice to have confirmation from someone with a reputation. It's probably true, but you never know...

rfgplk 6 hours ago | parent

This is all publicly available anyways, who cares? Also you're practically consenting to it when you run an agent locally

ectoloph 6 hours ago | parent

Is it naive to assume that the agent will try and access anything on your disk, either accidentally or maliciously?

Permissions classifiers in auto mode are just models trying to guess if they're doing the right thing.

Claude Code will tell you that it went around a sandbox because the sandbox blocked it. At which point, you ask yourself the point of the sandbox.

binsquare 43 minutes ago | parent

It's not naive it makes running these ai agents inside the sandbox even more important

petesergeant 36 minutes ago | parent

Not naive at all, which is why there are so many AI sandboxes: https://pleasedonotescape.com/

crossroadsguy 6 hours ago | parent

At this point does any of us/you really think all those piss-cheap tokens are coming out of thin air? That unlimited token-usage during certain hours was not coming from Chinese side of Himalayan glaciers, was it?

Besides why would you use a closed source harness from a certain place, even if you decide to use the model (if nothing then for the price alone). And, that first remark wasn't just for ZAI but all the providers.

At this point: wrapping the harness around something like sandbox-exec or agent-safehouse is a must. Better still, create a new user account (after so much resistance I am warming up to the idea).

Will ZAI see a blowback after this news? Naah. People will keep using it. Hell, I will keep using it. That's how it is now - post truth and post LLM world.

PS. Anyone singing praise of OpenCode here, it's literally one of the worst harneses, open or not. Just look at their fricking issues - the strategic and rampant placements of "no planned" is mind boggling. And for what? Slightly better than ClaudeCode in token consumption and that too starts getting muddled after a while.

nullbio 3 hours ago | parent

OpenCode performs the worse on benchmarks out of all harnesses too.

shevy-java 6 hours ago | parent

Well - spy agents. Not surprising. But people could have suspected this before surrendering to AI skynet.

nolok 6 hours ago | parent

While we're on this, I find it really really weird how windows defender insists on sending my codex work files for analysis all the time (which I block in automatic permissions so it has to ask me in a notification). I don't think i've seen it ask to upload more than one or two things, and it doesn't do it with other AI app I use (eg Claude Code) but they really want to see what's inside my codex files.

It's easy to trigger, I just need to go inside Codex settings and change something, it saves and instantly windows defender who never wants anything want to "you may be at risk, let me upload that for analysis yes/no".

4b11b4 5 hours ago | parent

WTF is token stead this is pure content marketing slop? Genuine question

rvz 5 hours ago | parent

Again. You really should stop using closed source harnesses, just because "It's cheap!".

jedisct1 5 hours ago | parent

You know, swival.dev is fully opensource, doesn't hide anything, fully supports GLM, has excellent context management to keep token usage low, and doesn't send anything you didn't ask to the cloud.

Iolaum 5 hours ago | parent

Things like that - and other examples posted here - are why I 'm sticking with OpenCode despite it having some papercuts that annoy me.

The incentives are not there for them to do shady stuff like vacuum your files, inflate your token count just because or many other things.

Scaled 1 hour ago | parent

Open code is great and I use it, however, they were caught uploading prompts to their summarization AI instead of using the configured AI model endpoint. This has since been fixed.

That said, running in a completely offline mode remains unnecessary difficult to configure. In particular, toggling off Zen seems to require a community plugin.

nullbio 3 hours ago | parent

Evidently there's not a single inference provider that can be trusted. This is why I don't use OpenRouter either. How am I supposed to trust all of those random providers I've never heard of, when I can't even trust the ones I have heard of? Day by day, the entire industry is hellbent on proving that open-weights and self-hosting is the only safe path forward for us all.

like_any_other 2 hours ago | parent

> However, across the entire policy, FAQs, and changelogs, there is not a single mention of silently packaging and uploading entire workspaces and full Git histories.

So this is criminal hacking, right? It will be prosecuted as criminal hacking? Not in civil court, but criminal court. Because if not... then are we totally done pretending, and we're just openly admitting that computer security law only applies to individuals, and corporations are exempt?

phoghed 46 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, totally. It’s criminal hacking. You should sue them.

codedokode 2 hours ago | parent

Is it much different from Apple and Google who trick user into agreeing and upload all user's data into a US cloud for convenient LE access?

Also, as I understood, this is a feature to allow server-side indexing of the project. But of course I wouldn't run this, and I generally wouldn't run any IDE or AI tools without a sandbox.

Sadly this plague of silent auto-updates is spreading to Linux. For example, browser plugins in Firefox on Linux can silently auto-update without user consent and without any checks and can be used as backdoors. Furthermore, the auto-updates are not using a package manager; firmware also seem to quietly update and also is not using a package manager.

shunhe 1 hour ago | parent

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dang 50 minutes ago | parent

Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) have been getting classified that way.

phoghed 45 minutes ago | parent

Oh no, they are going to steal my shit tier slop code their model wrote anyway

acrispino 39 minutes ago | parent

z.ai made a statement, screenshotted in this article: https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/2026-09-18/doc-inisfye...

claude translation:

Dear ZCode users,

We take today's community discussion very seriously. We carried out an internal review right away, and we first want to apologize to the affected users. Here is an explanation of what happened:

The issue stems from ZCode's "codebase indexing" feature. This feature is meant to help users generate a repository index locally, which supports session checkpoint restoration (including past versions), rolling back to past versions, and Repo Wiki, among other things.

When the Repo Wiki feature generates Wiki pages, it may trigger an upload of repository data. After the Wiki pages are generated in the cloud, the uploaded data is destroyed immediately and is not stored. Because this feature was enabled by default in its early launch period, some users were affected. We sincerely apologize for this. The issue has now been fixed.

We understand that any data-related issue directly affects users' trust in a product. We will open-source the ZCode codebase in the near future so we can improve the product within a more open ecosystem. We will also invite third-party evaluators to review how the system operates, and we'll keep publishing updates on the review, building your trust with full transparency.

We deeply apologize for the trouble this has caused. As compensation, all ZCode users will receive one extra weekly quota reset, which will be issued today.

Thank you again for your attention and oversight.