What OneKit can and can't touch

What it reads on your computer, what it asks you first, and how to turn each part off.

Last updated: October 25, 2026

What it reads, and when

  • When you ask Mini, your AI, for something, it can find and open files in your home folder to answer. It won't open the files where your computer keeps keys and passwords.
  • When it's helping you in an app, it reads what's in that app's window.
  • It can search your Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc history for a page you visited. It sees page names and addresses, never your saved logins.
  • If you connect Gmail and Google Calendar, it reads your mail and your calendar to sort your inbox, write draft replies and plan your day.
  • The microphone is on only while you dictate or record a meeting.
  • During setup, a yes to Files lets Mini read the documents on your computer once, to learn your work. The start of each file goes to an AI to sum up, with passwords and keys taken out first.
  • Screenwatch, if it's on, takes a picture of your screen every few seconds and notes the app, the window title and the web address. It also keeps what you write in apps: the text in the box when you send it or click away. It never reads your keystrokes or password fields. It skips password apps like 1Password, and it doesn't keep what you write in Messages, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, FaceTime, Discord or Mail.

Pressed Turn on everything during setup? That said yes to all of this at once, Screenwatch included. You can turn any part off below.

What needs your yes first

On a Mac, macOS asks you before OneKit can use each of these. Say no and that part stays off.

  • Files: your Documents, Desktop and Downloads folders, one at a time.
  • Screen Recording: so Mini can see your screen, and Screenwatch can work.
  • Accessibility: so Mini can click and type for you, and dictation can type your words.
  • Microphone: for dictation and meeting recordings.
  • System Audio: so a meeting recording hears everyone on the call, not only you.
  • Meeting detection: to notice when you join a call and offer to record it.
  • Gmail and Calendar: Google asks you in your browser when you connect them.

Windows has no separate ask for files, the screen or clicking. OneKit's own switches, further down, are how you control them there.

What stays on your computer

  • Meeting audio. It's turned into text on your computer and never uploaded. No recording is kept.
  • Screenwatch's pictures and logs, in the OneKit folder in your home folder.
  • Your saved passwords, encrypted. If you sync them to your phone, the copy we hold is locked so we can't read it. Mini types them into sign-in pages for you but never sees them.

What goes online

  • Your chats, notes, meeting notes and the files you save in OneKit. They're kept in your OneKit account so they show up on your phone and your other computers.
  • What Mini needs to answer you. Your message and the parts it needs, like a passage from a file, an email or what's on screen, go through OneKit's AI service to an AI company such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. On OneKit's AI, chats only go to companies that don't keep them or train on them. Requests to make a picture, like drawing your mini me from a selfie, are the one exception.
  • Screenwatch's summary. Once a day, a few of its pictures, that day's text, meeting notes and dictation go to an AI to sum up your day. Once a week it searches the web for things worth your time.
  • The keys for accounts you connect, like Gmail. They're stored encrypted. We never store your passwords for those services.
  • Usage stats and crash reports: which parts of OneKit you use and what broke, never what you type.

We don't sell your data. We don't use your email, contacts or documents to train AI.

What Mini does without asking, and what it asks first

Without asking

Reading: finding and opening files, reading your screen, your mail and calendar, searching the web.

Asks first, unless you change it

  • Creating, changing or deleting a file
  • Running a command in Terminal
  • Clicking, typing or pressing keys in an app or on a website
  • Adding, changing or removing a calendar event, since that can email your guests

Always asks, and no setting turns it off

  • Sending an email or a message as you. You press Send every time.
  • Posting to social media
  • Sharing a file, or putting a page on the web
  • Paying for something on a website
  • Risky Terminal commands

Press Esc to stop Mini while it's using your computer. If you click or type in another app, it pauses and waits for you.

Full Access, in Settings → Mini me → Approvals, lets Mini change files, run commands and click without asking. It's off unless you turn it on, and everything on the always-asks list still asks.

The same rules apply if your own Claude or ChatGPT answers instead of OneKit's AI.

How to turn each part off

  • A permission: on a Mac, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, pick it (like Screen Recording or Accessibility) and switch OneKit off. In OneKit, Settings → This Mac shows which ones are on.
  • Files on this Mac, Shell, Browser or Computer: Settings → Apps. Each one has a switch. Off means Mini can't use it.
  • One action: Settings → Mini me → Approvals. Set it to Allow, Ask first or Block. Block means Mini can't do it at all.
  • Screenwatch: Settings → Apps → Screenwatch, then turn off Screenwatch capture. Record what you type has its own switch. You can also pause it from the Screenwatch page.
  • Gmail and Calendar: Settings → Apps → Mail or Calendar, then Disconnect.
  • Sharing with our team: Settings → You → Privacy has two switches, Share chats with OneKit and Share usage stats and crash reports.

One catch: if you turn Computer back on yourself, OneKit sets its clicks and typing to Allow. Set them back to Ask first in Approvals if you want Mini to keep asking.

How to delete everything

  1. In OneKit, go to Settings → You, open Advanced, press Delete next to Delete account, and type DELETE. Your account and everything in it is gone right away, and OneKit clears what it kept on your computer.
  2. Delete the OneKit folder in your home folder. OneKit leaves it because it holds your own documents. Screenwatch's pictures are in it too.
  3. On a Mac, drag OneKit from Applications to the Trash. On Windows, uninstall it in Settings → Apps.

Google still lists OneKit in your Google account until you remove it there. What's kept and why is on the data deletion page.

Questions? Email a person.

A person reads every message and replies within one business day.

Missed the setup call? It runs a few times a week. Pick a time. The legal detail is in the Privacy Policy.