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What is Writing telemetry?

Definition

Writing telemetry is metadata captured during composition — keystroke timing, pause durations, revision events, paste sizes, and session boundaries — recorded without storing the content itself.

Telemetry is the raw material of behavioral certification. A capture layer in the editor observes events as they happen and batches them for analysis: when keys were pressed (not which), how long pauses lasted, where text was deleted and rewritten, and how much arrived via paste.

The privacy boundary is the defining design constraint: timing and structure are recorded, content never is. A telemetry stream cannot reconstruct a single word of the document, but it can establish beyond reasonable doubt whether the document was typed by a human or pasted into existence.