The sent-ledger is append-once and the OTLP span id derives from the same deduplication key, so the pipeline assumes a served call is immutable: same key, same value, forever. Copilot's serve-time reconciliation is the first producer that breaks that (#988), three ways inside one session — a shutdown residual shrinks as the store rows covering it land, a rollup is dropped once rows cover its leg, and an unpaired row becomes supplementary when its journal call appears. Sent at an intermediate state, the receiver keeps that state forever AND receives what supersedes it. Local reports re-reconcile every pass and were never affected; this is only about what leaves the machine. Value-versioned keys were the other option, but usage spans have no upsert contract — receivers sum them, so a superseding span adds rather than replaces. (Attribution can do it because its spans are documented as upserts by `ai.session_id`.) Giving usage spans one is a receiver protocol change. So: hold, do not re-key. Every input to the reconciliation is written during the session, so a session quiet for 24 hours cannot reconcile further and its first send is also its last word. The whole session is held, not just its residual — holding the residual alone still ships a row whose pairing can flip. Nothing is dropped: `held` is reported by --dry-run and by the nothing-to-push line, and the next push after the window sends it. Scoped by provider because copilot is the only reconciling producer; every other provider's calls go out unchanged and undelayed. |
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codeburn sync
Push your AI usage telemetry to a shared backend so teams can track adoption, budgets, and ROI across developers.
Everything stays local-first: codeburn never sends data without your explicit action, and prompts/code are never included.
Quick Start
# One-time setup (opens browser for login)
codeburn sync setup https://metrics.your-team.com
# Push recent usage
codeburn sync push
# Check status
codeburn sync status
Commands
codeburn sync setup <url>
Configures sync with a remote endpoint. Opens your browser for a one-time OIDC login.
codeburn sync setup https://metrics.your-team.com
What happens:
- Fetches server configuration from
<url>/.well-known/codeburn-export.json - Opens your browser to the identity provider's login page
- After login, stores a refresh token securely in your OS keychain
- Saves the endpoint configuration (no secrets) to
~/.config/codeburn/sync.json
You only need to do this once. The token refreshes silently on every push.
codeburn sync push
Sends unsent AI usage data to the configured endpoint.
# Push unsent calls from the last 7 days (default)
codeburn sync push
# Push a larger window
codeburn sync push --since 30d
# Preview what would be sent
codeburn sync push --dry-run
# Also push git attribution (opt-in — see "Git attribution" below)
codeburn sync push --attribution
codeburn sync status
Shows the current sync configuration and authentication state.
Endpoint: https://metrics.your-team.com
Traces path: /v1/traces
Issuer: https://auth.your-team.com
Auth: configured
Token storage: keychain
Last sync: 2h ago
codeburn sync logout
Removes stored credentials and revokes the token at the identity provider.
codeburn sync logout
codeburn sync reset --confirm
Clears the sent-ledger, causing the next push to re-send all data in the window. Use after a backend migration or if you suspect missing data.
codeburn sync reset --confirm
What Gets Sent
Each AI interaction becomes one OTLP span with these attributes:
| Field | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
ai.provider |
kiro, cursor, claude |
Which AI tool |
ai.model |
claude-sonnet-4-6 |
Model used |
ai.input_tokens |
12500 |
Prompt tokens |
ai.output_tokens |
3200 |
Response tokens |
ai.cost_usd |
0.085 |
Estimated cost |
ai.project |
my-app |
Project name |
ai.tools |
["Edit", "Bash"] |
Tools invoked |
A pseudonymous device_id distinguishes your machines without revealing hostnames.
Git attribution (opt-in: --attribution)
codeburn sync push --attribution additionally sends the session→commit correlation that codeburn yield computes locally, so the backend can join AI usage to git activity without git hooks. Two extra span types are emitted:
codeburn.session.attribution — one per session with joinable evidence:
| Field | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
ai.session_id |
abc123… |
Session (shares the usage spans' traceId) |
ai.project |
my-app |
Project name |
git.repo |
github.com/acme/widget |
Normalized origin remote (credentials and ports stripped) |
git.pr_links |
["…/pull/12"] |
PR URLs captured for the session |
git.commit_count |
2 |
Number of attributed commits |
codeburn.commit — one per commit attributed to a session:
| Field | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
git.sha |
4f2a… |
Commit SHA |
git.in_main |
true |
Whether the commit landed in the main branch |
git.was_reverted |
false |
Whether a later commit reverted it |
Attribution is inferred (timestamp-window correlation, the same heuristic as codeburn yield); the resource attribute codeburn.attribution_methodology: timestamp-window marks it as such. State transitions (a commit merging to main, or being reverted) are re-sent automatically on later pushes — receivers should upsert commits by (git.repo, git.sha) and session spans by ai.session_id (latest state wins). When a commit migrates to a later-parsed session with a tighter window, the losing session re-emits with git.commit_count: 0 (a retraction), so summing git.commit_count across upserted session rows never double-counts. Retractions fire only when the commit was won by another session — commits that merely age out of the --since window are not retracted, so a previously-synced count stays correct. Session spans also re-emit when an ongoing session's window grows, keeping the span end time current.
With --attribution, normalized repo remote URLs, commit SHAs, commit timestamps (span start times), PR URLs, and the merged/reverted booleans leave your machine — plus the same pseudonymous codeburn.device_id resource attribute the usage spans carry. PR links are rebuilt client-side from scheme + host + path only (userinfo, query strings, and fragments are dropped; https, /org/repo/pull/N path, bounded length, max 20 per session), and the repo identity itself passes a strict hostname/path allow-list before sending — malformed or transport-helper remotes (ext::…, codecommit::…) are rejected outright rather than parsed. Precisely what is and is not sent:
- Commits: only from repos with a network
originremote, and only for sessions whose own project path resolved to that repo. Local-only repos,file://remotes, and Windows filesystem paths are never emitted as repo identities. A session whose project path no longer resolves never inherits the repo of the directory you happen to push from. - PR links: sent whenever a session captured them, even when the session's repo could not be identified — the PR URL itself names the repo, so this adds no information beyond the link the session already recorded.
- Without the flag, none of this is sent.
What is NOT sent
- Prompts — your actual messages to AI are never included
- Code — file contents, diffs, and paths stay local
- Bash commands — may contain secrets, never sent
- Your name/email — identity is derived server-side from your login token
There is no flag to override this. Privacy is structural, not configurable. The only additive opt-in is --attribution (repo remotes, commit SHAs, and PR URLs — never code or prompts), described above.
Authentication
Sync uses standard OIDC (the same protocol as "Sign in with Google"). Your team's admin sets up the identity provider — you just click through the browser login once.
- Token storage: macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or Linux libsecret. Falls back to a
0600file if no keychain is available. - Token lifetime: typically 30–90 days (set by your admin). You'll be prompted to re-login when it expires.
- Re-login: run
codeburn sync setup <url>again.
FAQ
Q: Does sync run automatically?
A: No. You run codeburn sync push when you want. A future version may offer opportunistic push (after each codeburn report), but it's always explicit.
Q: What if I push the same data twice? A: Safe. A local sent-ledger tracks what's been sent. Re-pushing the same window doesn't create duplicates.
Q: Why is today's Copilot usage missing from my dashboard?
A: Copilot input/cache usage is reconciled locally between the per-request session-store.db rows and the session.shutdown rollups, and that reconciliation keeps changing while a session is live — a rollup residual shrinks as the rows covering it land, and a row that looked like a crash-only request becomes supplementary once its journal entry appears. The sent-ledger is append-once, so a value sent mid-reconciliation could never be corrected at the receiver. A Copilot session is therefore held back until it has been quiet for 24 hours, then pushed once, final. Nothing is dropped; --dry-run reports how many calls are held.
Q: What if I'm offline for a week?
A: Next push catches up. The default window is 7 days; use --since 30d or --since all (up to 6 months) for longer gaps. A push runs to completion regardless of size — server rate limits (429) are waited out automatically.
Q: Can my admin see my prompts? A: No. Prompts are never included in the payload. The server only sees token counts, costs, model names, and project names.
Q: How do I stop syncing?
A: codeburn sync logout removes everything. Or just stop running push.