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How Virgil handles your data — and who runs it. Last updated: October 2026.

Privacy Policy

Virgil is a command-line AI agent (npx virgil-cli) and a web chat at virgil-ai.cloud. It runs on your own machine. This page explains what data is processed and what leaves your computer.

What runs locally

Your shell, your files, Virgil's memory and its learned library live in ~/.virgil/ on your machine. Reading and listing files happens locally and is never sent anywhere. Virgil asks before it writes a file or runs a command.

What leaves your machine

To actually reason about a task, Virgil sends the task — your instruction plus the specific file snippets it needs — to its reasoning model through our switchboard, the same way any AI CLI sends context to a model. It does not upload your whole project, it does not run in the background, and nothing is sent for reading or listing files.

Bring your own key (BYOK)

If you connect your own model with virgil brain (OpenAI, Azure or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), your API key is stored in your operating system's keychain and requests go directly to your provider. We never see or store your key.

Accounts & identifiers

A new install gets a random device id used only to track your credit balance. If you sign in with Google to buy or sync credits across devices, we store your Google account id and email to hold your wallet — nothing else.

Payments

Credits and the optional library subscription are processed by SumUp. Card details are entered in SumUp's secure form and are never seen or stored by Virgil or by us. We store only your credit/subscription status and the email you give for receipts.

Sharing

We do not sell or transfer your data to third parties and do not use it for anything unrelated to providing Virgil. No hidden watermarks are added to Virgil's output.

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