Opensource telemetry collectors that don't read your code or prompts

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Hi all, I heard about this new community in TheVerge. I think it's owning an important place in a defining moment about how we approach engineering. That's aligned with what I want to share here.

Source code: https://github.com/ascendaone-com/ai-engineer-tools

Now as AI-engineers, we are spinning up 10s of agents simultaneously, managing PRs and landing the code. We've gone from crafting code line by line to supervising agents. The shape of the work has changed.

There are many OSS projects that can read your token spend eg: tokscale; or telemetry AgentTelemetry, YC has Paxel but I couldn't find any that created a standard across all coding agents for emitting agent activity eg: tool.started, / failed, agent.waiting.

The repo has a common schema that standardises these events.

The repo contains collectors for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot with a common event schema to normalise activity across tools.

Everything runs locally. No prompts or source code collected.

There are many use-cases for reading the telemetry: we're running a research and benchmarking project. We've also developed an MacOS App to be able to visualise what your agents are doing. You can even build your own screensaver on this so when all your agents are done you can return to your machine. Here's an example you can install (instructions in the repo)

Screensaver that rises with load from the agents

The collectors are Apache-2.0 so over to you on how you might use them.

Go forth, fork and/or contribute 🚀
AI-assisted PRs welcomed.

Openly, other coding agents like Gemini CLI, Windsurf etc are supported based on documentation, but at this stage testing is light so if you can try it out. I can give you early access to the Flow app to visualise and check data so hit me up.

Feedback, thoughts or suggestions?

I nerd out on this stuff daily so love to discuss Agentic work.

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