What a watcher sees, and what Flockshow stores
This page is for the person who has to decide whether Flockshow is safe to run on a real project. It lists everything that leaves your computer, where it goes and how long it stays.
Last checked against the product on [DATE].
What never leaves your computer
File paths, folder names, file extensions and line numbers. Your prompts. Your source code. Session ids and tokens. The events Claude Code sends. Your local history. Your Claude sign-in. Your card number.
Flockshow’s servers do not receive any of these, so they cannot store or leak them.
Nothing leaves until you press Share
The cursors on your own screen are drawn on your own computer. A room opens only when you press Share, and it closes when you stop it or when it reaches its plan’s limit.
What a watcher receives
| What | What it holds | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Your page | The page as it looks in your browser | Elements you mark private are masked on your computer first |
| A cursor’s name | “Kai” | 24 characters |
| A cursor’s colour | One of ten set colours | |
| A cursor’s label | A status word and a bare file label, such as “rewriting Hero” | 40 characters, with path characters removed |
| What kind of edit it is | Copy, style, layout or logic | A fixed set |
| Proposed page text | The text a session is about to put on the page, shown before it lands | 80 characters. Any word that looks like a path, an address or a source file is dropped. You can switch this off. |
A watcher’s view is rebuilt from that list. A field that is not on it is never sent.
How that is tested
A test in the product puts unique marker strings into a prompt, a folder name, an attribute in the code and a session id. It then reads every message a watcher’s connection receives and fails if any marker appears. The same test checks that the proposed page text does arrive, so it cannot pass by sending nothing.
What Flockshow stores
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your email, display name and avatar address, and the provider you signed in with | Until you delete your account |
| A label for each linked computer, with the date it was linked and last seen | Until you unlink it |
| A record of each room: host, start, length, peak watchers, data sent, why it ended | 12 months |
| Your plan and the payment provider’s ids for it | While you have an account |
| Daily totals as numbers | Kept |
| A scrambled abuse counter | One day |
While a room is live, your page and the cursor labels are held in the relay’s memory. They are not written to disk, and they are gone when the room ends.
How Flockshow works with Claude Code
Claude Code has a documented feature called hooks. A hook sends an event to a program on your own machine when a session does something, such as editing a file. Flockshow is that program.
Three things stay true:
- Flockshow never touches your Claude sign-in. It does not launch Claude Code, hold your credentials or sit between you and Claude.
- Flockshow never drives Claude Code. You type into your own terminal. Flockshow only listens.
- Flockshow is a separate product. It works with Claude Code. Anthropic does not make or endorse it.
This is a reading of Anthropic’s published pages on 11 Nov 2026. It is not legal advice. The pages read were the hooks reference (code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks), the Claude Code legal and compliance page (code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance) and the Consumer Terms (anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms).
Who else handles data
| Who | What for |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts the site and the relay |
| Dodo Payments | Merchant of record. Takes payments, handles tax and holds card details |
| GitHub or Google | The sign-in you choose |
What you control
- End a room from the bar on your app, at any time.
- Mark an element private and its text is masked before the page leaves your computer.
- Switch off proposed text for watchers in the session list.
- Unlink a computer, export your data or delete your account in Settings.
- Report a room with the Report link on any watch page.
Report a security problem
Write to faizanpathan@flockshow.com. Say what you found and how to repeat it.