This issue is documented here:
https://github.com/quickcall-dev/trace/issues/75

While installing quickcall trace in developer's laptop faced this error:
- Codebase was present in Documents folder in macos
- uvx tried to access Documents folder which is protected
- Access was denied by the user (i did not know back then that his code folders were present in that folder)
- That resulted into: git commands to get repo and branch
- Tried multiple methods to get installation up without allowing full disk access in macos but failed
- Finally tried reproducing the same error in friend's laptop and here are the traces of his terminals


# Terminal 1

```
~/Documents
🐱 ❯ ll -a
Permission denied: . - code: 13

Skipped 1 directories due to permission denied:
  .

~/Documents
🐱 ❯ mkdir temp
temp

~/Documents
🐱 ❯ ls
ls: .: Operation not permitted

~/Documents
🙀 ❯ cd temp

~/Documents/temp
🐱 ❯ ls

~/Documents/temp
🐱 ❯ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/zeeshan/Documents/temp/.git/

temp on  main
🐱 ❯ touch temp

temp on  main [?]
🐱 ❯ git add .

temp on  main [+]
🐱 ❯ git commit -m "initial commit"
[main (root-commit) f50d224] initial commit
 Committer: Zeeshan Bandar <zeeshan@Zeeshans-MBA.local>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the
following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit
your configuration file:

    git config --global --edit

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 temp

temp on  main
🐱 ❯ git checkout -b test
Switched to a new branch 'test'

temp on  test
🐱 ❯ cursor .
zsh: command not found: cursor

temp on  test
🙀 ❯ cursor .
zsh: command not found: cursor

temp on  test
🙀 ❯ cursor .

temp on  test
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access
zsh: command not found: quickcall

temp on  test
🙀 ❯ source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc

temp on  test
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


temp on  test
🐱 ❯ git remote add origin git@personal-github:zeeshan-bandar/temp.git

temp on  test
🐱 ❯ git remote add origin git@personal-github:zeeshan-bandar/repo-2.git
error: remote origin already exists.

temp on  test
🙀 ❯ git branch -M main

temp on  main
🐱 ❯ git push -u origin main
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 215 bytes | 215.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
To personal-github:zeeshan-bandar/temp.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.

temp on  main took 2s
🐱 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Killed 1 orphan process(es)
Daemon stopped

temp on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall start
Service re-registered with launchd

temp on  main
🐱 ❯
```


# Terminal 2

```
~
🐱 ❯ curl -fsSL https://quickcall.dev/trace/install.sh | bash -s -- zeeshan-test <api-key>

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  trace  ·  ai session collector

==> Installing uv...
downloading uv 0.10.3 aarch64-apple-darwin
no checksums to verify
installing to /Users/zeeshan/.local/bin
  uv
  uvx
everything's installed!
✓ uv installed
✓ Python 3.14 (uv will manage its own Python for quickcall)
✓ Shell config updated (/Users/zeeshan/.zshrc)
✓ quickcall alias configured (via uvx)
✓ Org set to: zeeshan-test
✓ API key configured
✓ Daemon wrapper written (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall-daemon)
==> Installing launchd agent...
✓ App bundle created (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/QuickCall.app)
✓ launchd agent installed and started
  Plist:   /Users/zeeshan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.quickcall.traced.plist
  Logs:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.log
  Errors:  /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.err
  Data:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/
==> Verifying installation...
✓ Heartbeat sent to https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

QuickCall Trace installed successfully!

The daemon is now watching your AI CLI sessions and pushing to:
  https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

Commands:
  quickcall status    # Check daemon + stats
  quickcall logs -f   # Follow daemon logs

To use 'quickcall' in this shell, run: source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc


~ took 8s
🐱 ❯ source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc

~
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: not running
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  No session data yet.


~ took 2s
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: not running
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  No session data yet.


~
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 76723) · uptime 0m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                0           0      1s ago
  Cursor IDE                 0           0      1s ago
  Gemini CLI                 0           0      1s ago

  0 files · 0 lines processed


~
🐱 ❯ ls
Applications    Desktop         Downloads       Library         Music           Pictures        Workspace
CascadeProjects Documents       go              Movies          OrbStack        Public

~
🐱 ❯ mkdir repo-2
repo-2

~
🐱 ❯ cd repo-2

~/repo-2
🐱 ❯ touch temp

~/repo-2
🐱 ❯ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/zeeshan/repo-2/.git/

repo-2 on  main [?]
🐱 ❯ git add .

repo-2 on  main [+]
🐱 ❯ git commit -m "initial commit"
[main (root-commit) 9f6e75a] initial commit
 Committer: Zeeshan Bandar <zeeshan@Zeeshans-MBA.local>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the
following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit
your configuration file:

    git config --global --edit

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 temp

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 76723) · uptime 1m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                7       1,031     50s ago
  Cursor IDE                 1           0     50s ago
  Gemini CLI                 2           0     50s ago

  10 files · 1,031 lines processed
  Rate:  934 messages/min · synced 50s ago


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ cursor .

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ git remote add origin git@personal-github:zeeshan-bandar/repo-2.git

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ git branch -M main

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ git push -u origin main
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 214 bytes | 214.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
To personal-github:zeeshan-bandar/repo-2.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.

repo-2 on  main took 2s
🐱 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Daemon stopped

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall start
Service re-registered with launchd

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 78873) · uptime 0m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                7       1,031      5m ago
  Cursor IDE                 2           0      2m ago
  Gemini CLI                 2           0      5m ago

  11 files · 1,031 lines processed


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ l -a
drwxr-xr-x@ - zeeshan 17 Feb 19:42  .git
.rw-r--r--@ 0 zeeshan 17 Feb 19:38 󰡯 temp

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ cursor ~/.quickcall-trace/

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Killed 1 orphan process(es)
Daemon stopped

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall start
Service re-registered with launchd

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 81086) · uptime 0m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                7       1,031     14m ago
  Cursor IDE                 2           0     11m ago
  Gemini CLI                 2           0     14m ago

  11 files · 1,031 lines processed


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ pkill -f "quickcall run" 2>/dev/null; pkill -f "quickcall-daemon" 2>/dev/null

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ uv cache clean qc-trace --force
No cache entries found

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.quickcall.traced

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ tccutil reset SystemPolicyDocumentsFolder com.quickcall.traced
Successfully reset SystemPolicyDocumentsFolder approval status for com.quickcall.traced

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Daemon stopped

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall start
Service re-registered with launchd

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ curl -fsSL https://quickcall.dev/trace/install.sh | bash -s -- zeeshan-test <api-key>

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  trace  ·  ai session collector

✓ QuickCall daemon already running (PID 81696, vunknown)

repo-2 on  main took 2s
🐱 ❯ quickcall sto
usage: quickcall [-h] {status,start,stop,logs,check-access,run} ...
quickcall: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'sto' (choose from 'status', 'start', 'stop', 'logs', 'check-access', 'run')

repo-2 on  main
🙀 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Daemon stopped

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ curl -fsSL https://quickcall.dev/trace/install.sh | bash -s -- zeeshan-test <api-key>

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  trace  ·  ai session collector

✓ uv already installed (uv 0.10.3 (c75a0c625 2026-02-16))
✓ Python 3.14 (uv will manage its own Python for quickcall)
✓ Shell config updated (/Users/zeeshan/.zshrc)
✓ quickcall alias configured (via uvx)

✓ Org set to: zeeshan-test
✓ API key configured
✓ Daemon wrapper written (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall-daemon)
==> Installing launchd agent...
✓ App bundle created (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/QuickCall.app)
✓ launchd agent installed and started
  Plist:   /Users/zeeshan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.quickcall.traced.plist
  Logs:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.log
  Errors:  /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.err
  Data:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/
==> Verifying installation...
✓ Heartbeat sent to https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

QuickCall Trace installed successfully!

The daemon is now watching your AI CLI sessions and pushing to:
  https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

Commands:
  quickcall status    # Check daemon + stats
  quickcall logs -f   # Follow daemon logs

To use 'quickcall' in this shell, run: source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc


repo-2 on  main took 4s
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 82555) · uptime 0m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                7       1,031     21m ago
  Cursor IDE                 2           0     18m ago
  Gemini CLI                 2           0     21m ago

  11 files · 1,031 lines processed


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc
qui%
repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall check-access

  Scanning for git repos in protected folders...

  No git repos found in protected folders


repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ tccutil reset SystemPolicyDocumentsFolder
Successfully reset SystemPolicyDocumentsFolder

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ quickcall stop
Stopping launchd (com.quickcall.traced)...
Service stopped (launchd (com.quickcall.traced))
Daemon stopped

repo-2 on  main
🐱 ❯ curl -fsSL https://quickcall.dev/trace/install.sh | bash -s -- zeeshan-test <api-key>

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  trace  ·  ai session collector

✓ uv already installed (uv 0.10.3 (c75a0c625 2026-02-16))
✓ Python 3.14 (uv will manage its own Python for quickcall)
✓ Shell config updated (/Users/zeeshan/.zshrc)
✓ quickcall alias configured (via uvx)

✓ Org set to: zeeshan-test
✓ API key configured
✓ Daemon wrapper written (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall-daemon)
==> Installing launchd agent...
✓ App bundle created (/Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/QuickCall.app)
✓ launchd agent installed and started
  Plist:   /Users/zeeshan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.quickcall.traced.plist
  Logs:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.log
  Errors:  /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/quickcall.err
  Data:    /Users/zeeshan/.quickcall-trace/
==> Verifying installation...
✓ Heartbeat sent to https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

QuickCall Trace installed successfully!

The daemon is now watching your AI CLI sessions and pushing to:
  https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest

Commands:
  quickcall status    # Check daemon + stats
  quickcall logs -f   # Follow daemon logs

To use 'quickcall' in this shell, run: source /Users/zeeshan/.zshrc


repo-2 on  main took 4s
🐱 ❯ quickcall status

  QuickCall Trace v0.4.29
  Org: zeeshan-test
  Daemon: running (PID 83390) · uptime 0m
  Server: https://trace.quickcall.dev/ingest ✓

  Source                 Files       Lines   Last push
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Code                7       1,031     24m ago
  Cursor IDE                 2           0     22m ago
  Gemini CLI                 2           0     24m ago

  11 files · 1,031 lines processed


repo-2 on  main took 2s
🐱 ❯
```

---

One more finding was that Cursor self heals the repo part if repo is not given earlier, so if user creates a repo later on even then we would get that.