None at the system level. It's a pure-skill plugin — just Markdown instructions, with no executable code, no MCP server, and no background process. It does not ask for file access, your API keys, or workspace access, and it declares no permissions, hooks, or services.

The one-time setup runs a short script (it only needs curl and jq) that writes the skill files and a local credentials file — nothing else. It never uses sudo, never writes outside your home folder, and doesn't touch your shell config, editor settings, or permission allowlists.

No. The plugin never reads, scans, or enumerates your repositories, files, or workspaces. Nothing in it points your agent at your code.

On first use it creates a brand-new anonymous identity that lives on the Hi platform. Your activity is isolated to that identity and connected to nothing else of yours unless you later choose to link a phone number. Your agent only ever acts on what you type into the chat — it won't open a local file unless you explicitly ask it to.

You provide nothing — no API key, no password, no account, not even an email or phone to get started. Registration is anonymous by design.

On first use the plugin auto-generates a machine credential for you. The usable secret is stored only on your machine, in ~/.config/hi/credentials.json (owner-read-only, file mode 600). On our servers that secret is kept only as an irreversible hash (argon2) — we literally cannot read it back. We don't collect your name, email, phone, location, or any device fingerprint.

(Like any website, our servers briefly log the request itself — e.g. IP and user-agent — but that's never written to your profile or tied to your identity. See our privacy page.)

Two things, both in your home folder:

• the skill files under ~/.claude/skills/ (hi-onboard, hi-use, hi-events)
• the credentials file at ~/.config/hi/credentials.json

That's the entire footprint. To remove it completely, delete those skill folders and the credentials file.

No account, and reading is free. Browsing and searching are anonymous and cost nothing.

Only when you want to act — post what you need, contact someone, or schedule a meeting — do you complete a one-time phone verification. That keeps the network real and spam-free; it's not required just to look around.

On Claude Code, no. The skills talk to Hi's REST API directly — no MCP server, no daemon, nothing running in the background. The skills load live, so there's no restart.

On the Claude desktop app, claude.ai web, and your phone, Hi connects as a remote MCP connector: nothing runs on your machine either — Claude talks to Hi's hosted server (https://mcp.hirey.ai/mcp) over a one-time OAuth sign-in. You add it once in Settings → Connectors; adding it on the web or desktop makes it appear in the phone app on your next login. Codex and OpenClaw use the same MCP-based path. The privacy guarantees above are the same; only the connection mechanism differs.

Claude Code (the terminal / IDE tool): paste the one-line install — local skills, no connector.

Claude desktop app, claude.ai in a browser, or Cowork: add the custom connector https://mcp.hirey.ai/mcp in Settings → Connectors.

Claude on your phone: you can't add a connector from the phone — add it once on the web or desktop and it syncs to the app automatically. Connectors are currently in beta on Claude.

HiRey works inside the AI you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Codex and others. You connect it once (steps) and there is nothing else to download. Your own Page, messages and Rey are at hirey.ai/me, on any phone or computer.

The HiRey iPhone app is separate and still in private testing.

Send it to Rey. Open hirey.ai/me → Messages → Rey and attach it (up to 64 MB). A short clip also works by iMessage to Rey (up to about 8 MB). Rey can make a transcript and use it for your Page; nothing goes public without your yes.

Bigger file? On hirey.ai/me, use Upload private media (videos up to 2 GB), then tell Rey about it.

ChatGPT and Claude on the web can't pass the file itself to HiRey. Codex and Claude Code can upload it for you once HiRey is connected.

Nothing gets installed. Tell Muse “Set up HiRey as a Custom Connector for me: https://hirey.ai/install/muse” (Instinct: “Connect HiRey for me: https://hirey.ai/install/muse”). It makes one call to get a HiRey key, adds HiRey as a Custom Connector, and talks to HiRey over HTTPS. Any agent that can call a web API can do the same. The steps

Before you sign in, the key can search people. Your agent asks you to sign in right after its first search, with your phone, email or Google: introducing you, posting, contacting, messaging and scheduling need it.

Nothing is published without your yes. Your agent shows you the exact text of your Page, or the photo and who is in it, and publishes only after you say yes.

The key stays private. Your agent keeps it private and doesn't show it in the chat. Getting it sends no personal data, and HiRey stores only a hash of it.

To disconnect, remove HiRey from your agent's connectors. If you signed in, also open hirey.ai/me and press Disconnect next to that Agent. Its key stops working.