Privacy
perch runs on your machine and is built to keep your work there. It has no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting. It does not send usage data, identifiers, or the contents of your terminals to the app's author or to any third-party tracking service.
Last updated: July 2026
This page describes what perch itself does over the network. It does not cover the separate agent CLIs and shells you choose to run inside perch's panes (see Tools you run inside perch below).
What stays on your machine
These never leave your device by any action of perch:
- Terminal output and scrollback buffers.
- Session state and layout.
- Your settings.
- The local communication between the app's host process and its interface.
Network connections perch makes
perch itself contacts exactly three endpoints, all first-party or public:
| Purpose | Endpoint | What is sent | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update check + download | github.com (this repo's Releases) |
Nothing personal — a normal request for the public release feed | On the app's update checks |
| Claude usage display | api.anthropic.com |
Uses the Claude sign-in that Claude Code already manages, to read your usage and limits | Only when you're signed in to Claude |
| Cloud price estimates | cloudbilling.googleapis.com |
Nothing personal — a request for Google Cloud's public price list | When computing cost estimates |
- perch does not create its own account or store its own copy of your provider credentials. The Anthropic usage call reuses the existing Claude Code sign-in; that data goes to Anthropic, your existing provider, not to perch's author.
- The update check talks to GitHub the same way any download would. GitHub may log the request per its own privacy policy; perch attaches no identity to it.
Tools you run inside perch
perch runs other programs for you. When you run an agent CLI or shell
command in a pane (for example Claude Code, Codex, gcloud, or
any other program), that tool does its own networking under your
own accounts and credentials. perch launches it and displays its
output; it does not intercept, reroute, or transmit that tool's data
anywhere. What those tools send, and to whom, is governed by their
privacy policies, not this one.
Changes
If perch's network behavior changes, this policy changes with it in the same release. If you find a discrepancy between this page and what the app actually does, please report it via SECURITY.md.