What actually gets sent

What actually gets transmitted when you attach something through a connector is worth being precise about, since it is the whole reason this exists as a dedicated set of commands rather than you just pasting content into a prompt by hand.

tCode never downloads or holds the full content of an email, a page, or an issue locally on your machine. It sends a small reference, which item, from which provider, and nothing more.

The tAI backend resolves that reference into the full content at the moment your message is actually sent, the exact same mechanism the web app's own composer already uses. This keeps tCode's own footprint small and keeps resolution consistent regardless of which surface, browser or terminal, you happen to be using.

This also means an item's content is always current at the moment it is actually used, not a stale copy fetched earlier and cached; if an email or a page changed between when you searched for it and when your message was sent, the version resolved is the current one.

The reference itself, not the content, is what briefly exists locally while you are choosing from the dropdown; the actual email text, page content, or issue description never sits on disk on your machine as part of this process.