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The honest companion to the video on YC's Paxel — the free tool that reads your Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sessions and scores how you build with AI. Paxel is a genuinely useful mirror: it scores you across five traits (steering, execution, engineering, product instinct, planning) and names your archetype (the Architect, the Quality Guardian, the Velocity Machine, or the Night Owl), and its profile token can sit next to a YC Startup School application. But its headline pitch — "your code never leaves your machine" — is not the whole story. Inside: the honest data map of what genuinely stays local (your working files, your .env, the full repo, the Docker container) versus what leaves as excerpts for GPT summarization — transcript excerpts that are tool outputs (a Read returns your file's contents, an Edit carries your diff) plus your prompts, commit messages, branch names, file paths, and session metadata, all sent to paxel-llm.ycombinator.com; the real risk (an excerpt can carry an API key or proprietary logic, and redaction happens only after the data has already left); the fair part (it is disclosed in the fine print, it is excerpts and not your whole codebase, and the container does run locally — the problem is the marketing headline, not a hidden data grab); the 2-minute safe-to-run decision (a do-not-run list — client code, NDA, secrets, employer code — and a safe list — throwaway side projects, public repos, clean scratch repos); a 4-question test; and three ways to get your builder profile without uploading your real work (run it on a clean repo, read your own .jsonl logs locally, or self-score the five traits). The takeaway: not malicious and genuinely useful — just know what you are signing up for before you point it at code you do not own.
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