Coding-agent telemetry now shows who acted and what was stopped
Copilot can now attribute activity to a user without capturing content, and Claude Code logs stopped tool calls. What to collect and how to read it.
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Keeping personal and company data out of places it shouldn't go.
Claude API OpenTelemetry export: what the spans hold and how to count them
Anthropic's API can now send OpenTelemetry spans to your own backend. What the content modes capture, how delivery works, and why token counts need care.
Shrink a coding agent's credential blast radius with secret proxies
NCSC guidance and Copilot's sandbox proxy point the same way: agents should not hold real secrets. How credential proxies work, their limits, and a checklist.
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Secret scanning now blocks Anthropic keys at push: closing the AI key gap
GitHub now blocks Anthropic API keys at push by default and is previewing AI-based secret detection. What changed, what is still preview, and what to do.
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Copilot CLI now finds local Ollama models: what stays on the machine
GitHub Copilot CLI can discover models from a local Ollama instance. A local model is not offline mode, and telemetry and remote providers still need settings.
The ICO's agentic AI call for evidence: what engineering teams should prepare
The UK ICO's call for evidence on agentic AI runs 8 October to 20 November 2026. Map security, transparency and ADM evidence now.
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Capturing prompts in AI telemetry is a privacy decision, not a setting
AI coding tools can export prompts, tool arguments and full API bodies. Why it's off by default, the risks of switching it on, and how to decide.
Write guardrails that keep secrets and personal data out of prompts
Add two or three SpanDock guardrails for secrets, personal data and your own patterns, enforce them on every computer, and check that they work.
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