Security and privacy

What Shoyu captures, and what it never does.

Shoyu records the screen or window you point it at and keeps the names of things, not their contents; they only show up in the recorded video if they were on screen. This page states the defaults and the boundaries plainly, without a badge wall.

Captured by default

  • App name and window title
  • Browser page URL and title
  • Repo, file, branch, and line range
  • Terminal output as a replay
  • Your microphone, if you turn it on
  • Your screen, obviously

Never captured by default

  • Page contents
  • Selected or visible code
  • Messages
  • Request or response bodies
  • Cookies or storage
  • Anything inside a file

Opt-in, per recording, visibly marked

  • Deep Context: browser console and network evidence for a bug report.

The tab shows “Shoyu Capturing” the whole time.

Who’s in charge

Your organization sets the rules.

Owners and admins set one policy for the team. The policy applies to every new recording. This page describes the defaults, and it changes when they do.

Owners choose the layers

Owners and admins turn each context layer on or off for the team: App, Browser, Code, and Terminal. A layer that is off is not captured in new recordings for the team.

DefaultAll four layers on

Every recording has a visibility

A recording can be private, so only you can watch it; shared with your organization, so your teammates can watch it; or public, so anyone with the link can watch it.

DefaultPrivate

Public links are a team decision

External links are off until an owner turns them on. While they are off, no one in the team can make a recording Public. If they are turned off later, the default visibility becomes Organization.

DefaultExternal links off

Members link recordings

Members can connect two recordings they can already watch. Owners and admins can limit this to admins only.

DefaultMembers allowed

shoyu.cc/dashboard/settings/policyOwner

Try the controls. Changes here aren’t saved.

Default visibility

New recordings start here

External links

Public links only work when this is on

Members manage relationships

Link recordings they can already watch

Context layers

  • App
  • Browser
  • Code
  • Terminal
Three roles
  1. Owner

    Sets the policy, manages members and domains, and can archive the organization.

  2. Admin

    Sets the policy and manages members and domains.

  3. Member

    Records and shares inside the policy, and can read the policy at any time.

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