RuntimeWire put the Windows client behind an inspection proxy and found its one-off canary token verbatim in the query property of a POST to gator.volces.com, an endpoint ByteDance's Volcano Engine documents for analytics reporting.
Reality
- Evidence80
- Adoption32
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives55
- Confidence68
RuntimeWire's A/B test shows no read-approval dialog appeared, and Moonshot's own kernel docs explain why: Read, Grep, Glob and ReadMediaFile are marked automatically allowed, so the prompt layer decides alone.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption22
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives57
- Confidence56
RuntimeWire's teardown of build 3.2.3 found the text-capture machinery finished and every toolbar button dead, which makes this an endpoint permissions question well before it becomes a product one.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives35
- Confidence60
Kimi Desktop 3.1.10 hides Moonshot's employee-only model gateway behind five clicks, then saves the personal bearer token to disk unencrypted in two places, according to RuntimeWire.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives45
- Confidence64
RuntimeWire found Moonshot AI's desktop app zips and uploads raw records from the five most recently updated conversations on every feedback submission, with no preview and no consent box.
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence66