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The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts

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Why This Matters

The Vercel plugin on Claude Code secretly requests access to all user prompts across projects, raising serious privacy and security concerns. Its method of obtaining user consent is deceptive, injecting questions directly into the AI's system context without clear UI prompts. This highlights the importance of transparency and user control in developer tools and AI integrations.

Key Takeaways

09 Apr 2026

The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts!

I was working on a project that has nothing to do with Vercel. No vercel.json , no next.config , no Vercel dependencies. Nothing.

And then this popped up:

“The Vercel plugin collects anonymous usage data… Would you like to also share your prompt text?”

Every single prompt. On a non-Vercel project.

That felt wrong. So I went deep into the source code with Claude.

tl;dr:

A deployment plugin is asking to read every prompt you type, across every project. Why?

The consent question isn’t even a real UI element. It’s delivered via prompt injection into Claude’s system context - the plugin tells Claude to ask you a question and run shell commands based on your answer.

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