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A privacy audit tool that detects undisclosed telemetry and repo exfiltration in AI coding CLI binaries

A user did manual reverse-engineering to discover that an official MiMo CLI build ships hidden code that uploads Git repo identity and bundles conversation/code diffs to a tracking endpoint, while the public source repo does not contain these implementations. Developers who install AI coding CLIs want a fast way to verify what data the binary actually sends before trusting it on private repos.

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The direct open-source field is effectively empty, so there is no established tool to build on or compete with, but the large adjacent package ecosystem means you should expect noise and must scope tightly to CLI binary telemetry and exfiltration auditing. Demand is strong enough to justify a narrow entry only if you can deliver credible binary provenance and network-behavior evidence rather than

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