What leaves your machine, and where it goes

In VS Code, nothing. Pen Wiki reads the Markdown files in your folder, and your own coding agent works there. No file, no code and no comment is sent anywhere until you put a page under Shared.

What goes up when you share a page

• The page's text — the Markdown file as it is — with its comments and its versions.
• For a guide's document: the run's record — the items it found, the files it looked at with their content hashes, and the commit it ran on. Not the code itself.
• Nothing else from the folder: no other file, no source code, no secrets. A page taken out of Shared is deleted from the web; the file stays on your machine.

Where it is kept

• The page's text lives in a storage bucket in one region, chosen by the team's owner — Frankfurt (eu-central-1) or Virginia (us-east-1). Comments, versions and the team's settings live in a table replicated to the regions Pen Wiki runs in.
• Everyone in the team can read a shared page; nobody outside the team can. There are no public links.
• A removed member's shared pages go to the team's recycle bin for seven days, then for good. Their files stay on their machine.

What the server never does

• It runs no AI model and never sees your code.
• It never writes to your repository.
• It sends mail only about your team: a comment answered, a review asked or done, an invitation.

Who runs it

Pen Wiki is run by a Swiss company (info@penwiki.com). Questions about any of this: write to the same address.