I am not a native English speaker; this article was translated by AI.

It started with a routine check while freeing up disk space: ~/.zcode was taking up over 700MB. After digging into it intermittently, I confirmed something pretty wild:

Whenever you are logged in, ZCode (Zhipu’s official AI coding desktop app) silently packages your entire workspace — complete .git history, LFS asset cache, reflogs, and global app configs — encrypts it, and uploads it directly to Aliyun OSS.

Even more ironic: the RSA public key used for encryption is delivered on the fly by the server, while the private key lives exclusively in the cloud.…