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Interaction Telemetry Guardrails

Collect useful interaction signal without recording what people type or read.

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What it adds

Redaction, sampling, and consent rules applied to interaction events before they leave the browser.

What your agent is told to do

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    Set the default to sending no content. An event records that a thing was interacted with, its type and its identifier; it does not record the text inside it unless that field is explicitly listed as safe.

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    Redact at the point of collection rather than after ingestion. Once a customer's message body reaches the analytics vendor, deleting it is a support request to a third party and a disclosure you have already made.

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    Sample the high-frequency signals — scrolling, hovering, typing, resizing — at a rate recorded on the event itself, so the numbers can be scaled back up correctly instead of being read as raw counts.

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    Honour the user's consent choice and the workspace's privacy configuration before anything is queued, and drop the queue when consent is withdrawn rather than sending what was already collected.

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    Distinguish an action a person took from a change the interface made. Restored scroll positions, programmatic focus, prefetches, retries, and automated tests all produce interaction-shaped events that are not interactions.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Private content leaks through the least obvious properties: a page title containing a customer name, a URL path with an email in it, a form label carrying a filename. Redaction must cover titles, paths, labels, and error text, not only field values.
  • High-frequency events dominate the volume and the cost while carrying little information per event. Sample them, and record the sampling rate on the event so nobody later reports a tenth of the real number as fact.
  • Consent and workspace privacy settings are checked before an event is queued, not before it is sent. A queue built up in advance and flushed after a refusal is exactly the outcome consent was supposed to prevent.
  • Events generated by the app rather than the user — restored state, automated retries, synthetic monitoring, test runs — must be excluded or clearly marked, or engagement metrics will measure the software's own behaviour.
  • The volume of events must be bounded so a stuck component cannot flood the queue and the network from a single session.
  • Some jurisdictions and enterprise workspaces require regional storage or complete opt-out, so the destination and the ability to send nothing at all must both be configurable.
  • A retention period has to be set deliberately for interaction data, because the default in most tools is longer than any legitimate use of it.

Definition of done

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  • Events carry no user-entered text, and safe fields are enumerated explicitly rather than assumed.
  • Redaction happens in the browser before any event is transmitted.
  • High-frequency events are sampled and each event states the rate it was sampled at.
  • Consent and workspace privacy are evaluated before an event is queued, and withdrawal drops the pending queue.
  • App-generated interactions are excluded or distinctly marked.
  • Per-session event volume is capped.
  • Destination region, opt-out, and retention period are configurable and documented.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

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    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

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    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

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    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.