Privacy

October 2026

The program

TopicForge is a local program. It runs on your machine and reads the ROS 2 graph, DDS discovery data and bag files there. It never sends that data anywhere.

No account, no sign-up, no cookies, no analytics on the tool itself.

Telemetry

Telemetry is off by default and opt-in. To turn it on, set TOPICFORGE_TELEMETRY=on.

When it is on, each tool call produces an event with six fields:

tool_name
latency_ms
mode
version
session_id random per process
success

Never included

topic names
message types or payloads
bag paths or contents
hostnames
usernames
IP addresses
environment variables
error messages

Today the event is only written to the local log. There is no network endpoint.

The Claude plugin

The Claude plugin does not enable telemetry.

Claude itself

What Claude, the AI client, does with tool results is governed by your Claude settings and Anthropic's privacy policy, not by TopicForge.

This website

The Apache access logs of this site (IP address, browser, page requested, date) are deleted automatically after about 15 days.

The site itself has no cookies and no analytics.

Contact

ethvignot.yanis@gmail.com