Your reviewer sees your process, not your secrets. Capture is scoped to your assessment workspace and your AI coding tool — nothing else on your machine.
What is captured
What is NOT captured
- Keystrokes between prompts, or any screen recording
- File contents you never open, edit, or ask the AI to touch
- Environment variables and secrets
- Browser activity, or anything outside your coding tool session
- Your clipboard
- Your file system outside the assessment workspace
The optional authorship-timing layer
At consent, after you accept the main terms, Promptster asks one optional question: whether to allow cadence-based authorship checks. If you say yes, Promptster records timing metadata — how long between your prompts and commands, and whether a long prompt arrived suddenly enough to look pasted rather than typed. This helps reviewers distinguish work you composed from work pasted in from elsewhere. No keystrokes and no content are captured — only timing and length signals. If you say no, you take the assessment normally; this layer is simply not recorded. It’s genuinely optional.Device continuity
To confirm an assessment was completed by one person on a consistent setup, Promptster records a coarse device fingerprint at three checkpoints — consent, start, and submission. It’s a hash of low-resolution signals (OS, architecture, CPU count, and hashed hostname/username), never your actual identifiers. It’s used to flag continuity anomalies for the reviewer, not to identify you personally.How your AI usage is handled
Assessments run in one of two modes. In the default managed mode, your AI tool runs through the Promptster proxy, which forwards your requests to the model provider and records the conversation as part of your session; your personal account is never billed. Some assessments instead use your own subscription, in which case you sign in to your tool as usual and the session is captured from your tool’s transcript. Either way, capture is scoped to the assessment workspace and your AI coding tool — your other projects are unaffected. See Signing in to the AI.Data retention
Your session data is retained for 30 days after the session ends, then automatically deleted. To request earlier deletion, email [email protected].Your rights — get a copy of your data
You can request a machine-readable export of everything tied to your assessment (your session metadata, timeline, and the artifacts derived from it) using your assessment key. Contact the hiring team or [email protected] and we’ll provide your data export.Who can see your data
- The hiring team that created the assessment
- You — via your post-submission session replay link, and via a data-export request
- Promptster staff, for support purposes only