# Privacy — illo skill

HTML: https://illo-skill.com/privacy

Last updated: 2026-08-21

illo skill is not a hosted service. It is an open-source agent skill you install into a coding agent and run on your machine. There is no illo account, no cloud that stores your prompts or images, and no product that collects information from you in order to work.

We do not operate an API, a dashboard, or a backend that receives usage from the skill. Running illo does not send us your ideas, source URLs, generated images, or API keys. That is the unusual part, and it is the whole product: we ship a skill, not a data-collecting service.

## What the skill does with your work

The engine runs locally inside the user's coding agent. Prompts and output stay in that environment unless the user copies them elsewhere.

Image generation goes through a backend the user already has, not through us:

- Codex CLI, Grok CLI, and Grok Bot use the signed-in host's own image tools. Their privacy terms are the host's.
- OpenRouter is optional. The skill stores a key in `~/.config/illo/config.yaml` with mode 600 on the user's computer. That key is not sent to illo-skill.com. Prompts sent to OpenRouter are subject to OpenRouter's policies.

Community character packs are public GitHub content. Private characters you build stay local unless you open a pull request to share them.

## This website

illo-skill.com is documentation and a character catalog — install commands, examples, `llms.txt`, `characters.json`. It has no logins, no newsletter, no comment form, and no product cookie issued by this project. Fetching public files is not a private action.

The site is hosted on Vercel. Ordinary request logs exist on that host (IP, user agent, URL, status). The page also loads Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to count visits. That is site traffic, not skill usage, and it is not joined to anyone running the skill.

## Contact

There is no privacy inbox because there is no user database to ask about. Questions: [GitHub issues on tmchow/illo-skill](https://github.com/tmchow/illo-skill/issues) or [X (@trevin)](https://x.com/trevin). Do not paste secrets. See also [https://illo-skill.com/contact](https://illo-skill.com/contact).