Privacy policy

Context Aware does not collect anything about you, and it never contacts anyone over the internet. There is no account to create, no analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or advertising code inside it, and the app makes no network requests of any kind. It reads a file Claude Code already writes on your Mac, counts the tokens in the most recent turn, and posts you a local notification when that count crosses a threshold you set.

That is short enough to be suspicious, so the rest of this page says exactly what the app reads, what it stores, and everything it does not do.

1. What we collect

Nothing. We operate no service that receives data from the app, so there is no database with your name in it, no log of your sessions and no profile of you anywhere. This is not a promise about how we behave with data we hold. We do not hold any.

The app contains no third-party software development kits, so there is also no analytics vendor, advertising network or crash reporter collecting anything on their own account. It is built on Apple's own frameworks and our code.

2. What the app reads on your device

Context Aware reads the JSONL transcript files that Claude Code writes under ~/.claude/projects/. It looks at only the newest transcript, and only its last ~4 MB, to find the most recent token usage record and the session's current title. It does not send those contents anywhere. The reading happens entirely on your Mac.

On the Mac App Store build, macOS's sandbox requires you to grant the app access to that folder the first time you launch it, using a standard "Choose Folder" dialog. Your choice is remembered as a security-scoped bookmark and is used for that folder only.

On the direct-download build (from the-trade-script.com or the GitHub releases page), macOS does not require the grant dialog, so the app reads the same folder directly. Either way, only Claude Code's transcript folder is read; the app has no reason to touch anything else.

3. What the app stores on your device

Two small files, inside the app's storage area on your Mac, and nowhere else:

• The thresholds you have set, and a small record of which threshold has already fired for which session, so you don't get the same alert twice for the same crossing.
• On the Mac App Store build, the security-scoped bookmark that remembers which folder you granted access to.
• Your Watching on/off toggle, your CRITICAL delivery choice, and your Open at Login choice, if you enable it (the last one recorded by macOS itself, not us).

Deleting the app deletes all of it. If you back up your Mac, this data is part of that backup, under whatever settings you have chosen with Apple. We are not a party to that backup and cannot read it.

4. Network requests

Context Aware makes no network requests. Not to us, not to Anthropic, not to Apple, not to anyone. There is no fetcher, no update check, no telemetry ping, no error reporting call. The app contains no code that opens a network connection.

5. Notifications

When a threshold you set is crossed, the app asks macOS to show a local notification, and, if you picked the "Loud" option, plays the system default sound. If you picked the "Blocking modal" option instead, the app brings up a modal window that stays on screen until you dismiss it. All of it happens locally on your Mac. The notification is a standard system notification, the same kind Calendar and Reminders use.

macOS asks for your permission the first time the app tries to show a notification. If you say no, the app still watches your context; you just won't see the banner.

6. Launch at login

There is an "Open at Login" option in the menu. Enabling it asks macOS to open Context Aware when you log in, using Apple's Service Management framework. macOS itself remembers the setting; nothing is sent anywhere, and the app appears in your Login Items in System Settings for you to remove any time.

7. What we never do

• We do not sell, rent or share your information, because we do not have any.
• We do not read the contents of your Claude Code conversations. The app only extracts token counts and, when an alert fires, the session's title.
• We do not track you across apps or websites, and the app contains no advertising identifiers.
• We do not sync anything to a cloud service of ours. There is not one.
• We do not check for updates or phone home for any reason. Updates arrive through the Mac App Store or through you downloading a new .dmg, on your schedule.

8. Your control, and deletion

Because nothing reaches us, there is no request you need to send us to see, correct or delete your data. You already hold all of it. To revoke the app's access to the transcript folder on the Mac App Store build, choose "Change folder…" from its menu and cancel, or delete the app; the bookmark disappears with the app's container.

To remove Context Aware entirely: delete the app from /Applications, then delete the folder at ~/Library/Containers/com.thetradescript.contextaware (Mac App Store build) or ~/Library/Application Support/ContextAware (direct-download build).

Rights under laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA generally attach to a company holding your personal information. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to disclose, port or erase. You are welcome to write to us and ask us to confirm that.

9. Children

Context Aware is a small utility for people using Claude Code, and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

10. Relationship to Anthropic

Context Aware is an independent tool published by The Trade Script, LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. It reads files Claude Code writes on your own machine. Nothing about it involves Anthropic's servers or ours.

Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. Their names are used here only to describe what Context Aware is compatible with.

11. Changes to this policy

If the app ever does something this page does not describe, this page changes first and carries a new date at the top. The commitment we are making is narrow and specific on purpose: a page this short is easy to check against what the app actually does, and we would rather be held to it.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy go to The Trade Script, LLC. You can reach us through the site's contact form.