Local AI telemetry: which tools send what by default, and the switch for each

Some programs that run AI models on your own computer also send information out of it: a usage report, an update check, a list of recommended models, a crash report. "Phoning home" is the everyday name for a program contacting its maker's servers on its own, with nobody having asked it to. Update checks and usage reports work this way, and that is not, by itself, a sign of anything wrong. This site is a register of the local AI programs we have run, benched or read, and the system software around them: whether each sends anything by default, what kind of call it is, when, to whom, the switch that stops it, whether we proved that the switch works, and how we know. Of the 24 programs here with a call on by default, 12 describe each such call in their own documents and 11 describe some of it, linked in each row. Some of these calls exist to keep you safe or up to date; this site says how to turn each one off, not that you should. A call out is not an accusation: each row prints the maker's own stated reason beside what we found, in the maker's words. What is left out, and why, is under what this register does not cover.