Privacy for connected AI
Connecting an AI to Sensefold gives it a set of tools, not a copy of your library. This page spells out what crosses the line in each direction.
What a client receives
Section titled “What a client receives”Only what it asks for, one call at a time:
search_hub/search— matching items with title, summary, a snippet of the matching text, tags, the item’s Sensefold link (sensefoldUrl), and the original source URL.get_item/fetch— one item’s cleaned text in windows of up to 20,000 characters, plus title, tags, summary, source URL, and version.list_items— recent items with metadata.get_quota— plan, credit balance, and limits. No content.
Nothing is pushed to a client between calls, and no client can read the library in the background — every read is a request your AI makes while you are using it. Comments and highlights are not part of the MCP responses today.
Item text is delivered marked as archived user data, not instructions. Saved web pages can still contain text that tries to steer a model; if you automate an agent over untrusted captures, give it a read-only connection.
What Sensefold records
Section titled “What Sensefold records”- Every write an agent makes is versioned and attributed to that connection in your History and Activity views — see Permissions, revocation, and undo.
- Agent calls are rate-limited per key.
- Your content is never used to train models. AI enrichment of captures runs through providers that act as data processors and are contractually prohibited from training on your content; enrichment requires your explicit consent, which you can revoke in Settings. The full list is on the Subprocessors page and the privacy policy.
What your AI client does with it
Section titled “What your AI client does with it”Once Claude, ChatGPT, or an IDE agent has read an item, that text is inside that client’s conversation and subject to that provider’s own data and training settings — Sensefold has no control over it. Check the client’s settings if that matters for what you keep in Sensefold.
Your data leaves with you
Section titled “Your data leaves with you”Everything is Markdown: export the whole library as a ZIP anytime, or copy a single item — see Export your library.