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Add keystroke telemetry & overlay support
dasabhishk-buildstuff Sep 17, 2026
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Validate explicit keystroke telemetry paths
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions electron/electron-env.d.ts
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Expand Up @@ -593,6 +593,11 @@ interface Window {
message?: string;
error?: string;
}>;
getKeystrokeTelemetry: (videoPath?: string) => Promise<{
success: boolean;
samples: KeystrokeTelemetryPoint[];
message?: string;
}>;
setCursorTelemetry: (
videoPath: string | undefined,
samples: CursorTelemetryPoint[],
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -969,6 +974,12 @@ interface CursorTelemetryPoint {
| "not-allowed";
}

interface KeystrokeTelemetryPoint {
timeMs: number;
key: string;
modifiers: Array<"meta" | "ctrl" | "alt" | "shift">;
}

interface SystemCursorAsset {
dataUrl: string;
hotspotX: number;
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions electron/ipc/constants.ts
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Expand Up @@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ export const COMPANION_AUDIO_LAYOUTS = [
export const CURSOR_TELEMETRY_VERSION = 2;
export const CURSOR_SAMPLE_INTERVAL_MS = 33;
export const MAX_CURSOR_SAMPLES = 60 * 60 * 30; // 1 hour @ 30Hz
export const KEYSTROKE_TELEMETRY_VERSION = 1;
export const MAX_KEYSTROKE_SAMPLES = 10_000;
84 changes: 84 additions & 0 deletions electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -11,10 +11,19 @@ vi.mock("electron", () => ({
},
}));

import {
activeKeystrokeSamples,
setActiveKeystrokeSamples,
setCursorCaptureStartTimeMs,
setIsKeystrokeCaptureActive,
} from "../state";
import {
repairBundledUiohookBinaryForCurrentArch,
resolveUiohookKeyToken,
shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook,
} from "./interaction";
import { recordKeystroke, resetKeystrokeRepeatState } from "./keystrokeTelemetry";
import { resetCursorCaptureClock } from "./telemetry";

describe("shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook", () => {
it("does not start the synchronous uiohook event tap on macOS", () => {
Expand All @@ -27,6 +36,81 @@ describe("shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook", () => {
});
});

describe("resolveUiohookKeyToken", () => {
const keyTable = {
Enter: 28,
Escape: 1,
ArrowLeft: 57419,
ArrowRight: 57421,
Left: 100,
PageUp: 3657,
A: 30,
C: 46,
Comma: 51,
Ctrl: 29,
CtrlRight: 3613,
Alt: 56,
AltRight: 3640,
ShiftRight: 54,
Meta: 3675,
MetaRight: 3676,
};

it("aliases uiohook names onto the overlay token vocabulary", () => {
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(28, keyTable)).toBe("enter");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(1, keyTable)).toBe("esc");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(57419, keyTable)).toBe("arrowleft");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(100, keyTable)).toBe("arrowleft");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(3657, keyTable)).toBe("pageup");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(30, keyTable)).toBe("a");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(46, keyTable)).toBe("c");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(51, keyTable)).toBe("comma");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(99999, keyTable)).toBeNull();
});

it("folds right-hand modifiers onto the same tokens as the left-hand keys", () => {
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(29, keyTable)).toBe("ctrl");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(3613, keyTable)).toBe("ctrl");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(56, keyTable)).toBe("alt");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(3640, keyTable)).toBe("alt");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(54, keyTable)).toBe("shift");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(3675, keyTable)).toBe("meta");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(3676, keyTable)).toBe("meta");
expect(resolveUiohookKeyToken(57421, keyTable)).toBe("arrowright");
});
});

describe("keystroke repeat collapse", () => {
afterEach(() => {
vi.restoreAllMocks();
setIsKeystrokeCaptureActive(false);
setActiveKeystrokeSamples([]);
resetKeystrokeRepeatState();
resetCursorCaptureClock();
});

it("bumps last-seen time and emits once for a held key", () => {
setIsKeystrokeCaptureActive(true);
setCursorCaptureStartTimeMs(1_000);
setActiveKeystrokeSamples([]);
resetKeystrokeRepeatState();
resetCursorCaptureClock();

const now = vi.spyOn(Date, "now");
now.mockReturnValue(1_100);
recordKeystroke("c", ["meta"]);
now.mockReturnValue(1_120);
recordKeystroke("c", ["meta"]);

expect(activeKeystrokeSamples).toHaveLength(1);
expect(activeKeystrokeSamples[0]).toMatchObject({ key: "c", modifiers: ["meta"] });

now.mockReturnValue(1_200);
recordKeystroke("c", ["meta"]);
expect(activeKeystrokeSamples).toHaveLength(2);
});
});

describe("repairBundledUiohookBinaryForCurrentArch", () => {
const tempRoots: string[] = [];

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99 changes: 98 additions & 1 deletion electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts
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Expand Up @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
hasLoggedInteractionHookFailure,
interactionCaptureCleanup,
isCursorCaptureActive,
isKeystrokeCaptureActive,
lastLeftClick,
setHasLoggedInteractionHookFailure,
setInteractionCaptureCleanup,
Expand All @@ -13,10 +14,13 @@ import {
} from "../state";
import type {
CursorInteractionType,
HookKeyboardEvent,
HookMouseEvent,
KeystrokeModifier,
UiohookLike,
UiohookModuleNamespace,
} from "../types";
import { recordKeystroke } from "./keystrokeTelemetry";
import {
getCursorCaptureElapsedMs,
getHookCursorScreenPoint,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -187,6 +191,75 @@ export function shouldStartGlobalInteractionHook(platform: NodeJS.Platform = pro
return platform !== "darwin";
}

const KEY_TOKEN_ALIASES: Record<string, string> = {
return: "enter",
enter: "enter",
escape: "esc",
arrow_left: "arrowleft",
left: "arrowleft",
arrow_right: "arrowright",
right: "arrowright",
arrow_up: "arrowup",
up: "arrowup",
arrow_down: "arrowdown",
down: "arrowdown",
page_up: "pageup",
page_down: "pagedown",
ctrlright: "ctrl",
altright: "alt",
altgr: "alt",
shiftright: "shift",
metaright: "meta",
};

export function resolveUiohookKeyToken(
keycode: number,
keyTable: Record<string, number>,
): string | null {
if (!Number.isFinite(keycode)) {
return null;
}

let name: string | null = null;
for (const [key, code] of Object.entries(keyTable)) {
if (code === keycode) {
name = key;
break;
}
}
if (!name) {
return null;
}

const token = name.toLowerCase();
return KEY_TOKEN_ALIASES[token] ?? token;
}

function loadUiohookKeyTable(moduleExports: UiohookModuleNamespace): Record<string, number> {
const table = moduleExports.UiohookKey;
if (!table || typeof table !== "object") {
return {};
}
return table;
}

function modifiersFromHookEvent(event: HookKeyboardEvent): KeystrokeModifier[] {
const modifiers: KeystrokeModifier[] = [];
if (event.metaKey) {
modifiers.push("meta");
}
if (event.ctrlKey) {
modifiers.push("ctrl");
}
if (event.altKey) {
modifiers.push("alt");
}
if (event.shiftKey) {
modifiers.push("shift");
}
return modifiers;
}

export function recordCursorMouseDown(button: 1 | 2 | 3) {
if (!isCursorCaptureActive || isCursorCapturePaused()) {
return;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -264,7 +337,7 @@ export async function startInteractionCapture() {
}

if (!hook || typeof hook.on !== "function" || typeof hook.start !== "function") {
console.log("[CursorTelemetry] hook unusable — aborting interaction capture");
console.log("[CursorTelemetry] hook unusable � aborting interaction capture");
return;
}

Expand All @@ -289,11 +362,29 @@ export async function startInteractionCapture() {
setLinuxCursorScreenPoint({ x: point.x, y: point.y, updatedAt: Date.now() });
};

const keyTable = isKeystrokeCaptureActive
? loadUiohookKeyTable(nodeRequire("uiohook-napi") as UiohookModuleNamespace)
: {};
const captureKeys = isKeystrokeCaptureActive;
const onKeyDown = (event: HookKeyboardEvent) => {
if (typeof event.keycode !== "number") {
return;
}
const token = resolveUiohookKeyToken(event.keycode, keyTable);
if (!token) {
return;
}
recordKeystroke(token, modifiersFromHookEvent(event));
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Enforce protected-input suppression on every keyboard capture backend.

The Windows and Linux path has no protected-input check. The macOS path permits capture when the check cannot determine the focused element or subrole.

  • electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts#L369-L377: verify that the focused input is not protected before calling recordKeystroke.
  • electron/native/NativeCursorMonitor.swift#L410-L414: return a protected or unknown state when Accessibility inspection fails, and suppress the event.

Without these controls, password keystrokes can enter the persisted telemetry sidecar.

📍 Affects 2 files
  • electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts#L369-L377 (this comment)
  • electron/native/NativeCursorMonitor.swift#L410-L414
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In `@electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts` around lines 369 - 377, The keyboard
handler around onKeyDown in electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts lines 369-377
must verify the focused input is not protected before calling recordKeystroke.
In electron/native/NativeCursorMonitor.swift lines 410-414, update the
Accessibility inspection failure path to return a protected or unknown state and
suppress the event; apply both backend changes so protected-input checks
consistently block captured keystrokes.

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I missed adding the same to windows and linux paths and chromium password fields, however the sidecar is an internal local project artifact and is not part of the user-shared export. I think the existence of raw keystrokes in the sidecar should not itself be considered an exposure of credentials. However, since issue #969 explicitly requires no capture in password fields, protected-field suppression I will try to extend the implementation to meet this requirement. The 'Shortcuts' mode independently guarantees that ordinary typed characters are not rendered into the exported output.

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@dasabhishk-buildstuff, agreed that a local-only sidecar has a different exposure scope than exported media.

The remaining concern is the capture requirement from issue #969. Shortcuts mode filters rendered output, but onKeyDown still captures and persists ordinary input before that filter applies.

The finding should remain open until each capture backend suppresses input from protected fields, including cases where protected-field detection is unavailable.

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File: electron/ipc/cursor/interaction.ts:369-377
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Learning: For the Recordly keystroke overlay feature, the `${video}.keystrokes.json` sidecar is an internal local project artifact and is not included in user-shared exports. The `Shortcuts` overlay mode prevents ordinary typed characters from rendering in exported output, but it does not prevent keystroke capture or sidecar persistence.

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};

hook.on("mousedown", onMouseDown);
hook.on("mouseup", onMouseUp);
if (process.platform === "linux") {
hook.on("mousemove", onMouseMove);
}
if (captureKeys) {
hook.on("keydown", onKeyDown);
}

setInteractionCaptureCleanup(() => {
try {
Expand All @@ -303,12 +394,18 @@ export async function startInteractionCapture() {
if (process.platform === "linux") {
hook.off("mousemove", onMouseMove);
}
if (captureKeys) {
hook.off("keydown", onKeyDown);
}
} else if (typeof hook.removeListener === "function") {
hook.removeListener("mousedown", onMouseDown);
hook.removeListener("mouseup", onMouseUp);
if (process.platform === "linux") {
hook.removeListener("mousemove", onMouseMove);
}
if (captureKeys) {
hook.removeListener("keydown", onKeyDown);
}
}
} catch {
// ignore listener cleanup errors
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