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Org policy can hide the transcript-scanning usage views

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Org policy can hide the usage-pattern and skill-token views that read your local transcripts.

What

Two new org-policy keys, allow_usage_transcript_scan and allow_skill_doctor_transcript_scan, control the "Usage patterns" and "Skill token counts" views. Both views are built by reading the session transcripts saved locally on the machine, so accounts under HIPAA-regulated org policy see an explanation in place of the data. Whether you get the views is decided by the account's server-supplied policy document, not by any local setting or anything in the bundle.

Details
  • The text shown in place of the breakdown is "Not shown for HIPAA-regulated organizations: this breakdown is built by scanning the session transcripts saved on this machine."
  • allow_usage_transcript_scan is the key behind the user-facing "Usage patterns" label, and allow_skill_doctor_transcript_scan covers "Skill token counts".
  • Both keys sit in the org-policy tables alongside the existing hipaa and zero-data-retention restrictions allow_heap_dump and allow_send_file, and are always paired with each other.
  • The policy resolver treats an unknown or unfetched policy map as allowed, so the default is that the views appear, except that both keys are force-denied when the compliance-taint check holds.
Evidence

Not shown for HIPAA-regulated organizations: this breakdown is built by scanning the session transcripts saved on this machine., allow_usage_transcript_scan

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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