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Bolt Security & Data Handling Checklist

Model training defaults since October 7, 2026, Bolt Forge data sharing, database rules, site visibility, and team controls to check before company data goes into a Bolt app.

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Before a Bolt app touches company data, put its builders on accounts excluded from model training, review its database rules, and publish it privately. StackBlitz may train models on content that individual accounts outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland create from October 7, 2026, until each user turns the setting off. This checklist lists what security and legal settle before a Bolt app or workspace goes near company data.

When you need this

  • A Bolt app will read customer, employee, or financial data.
  • Security or legal must approve Bolt for staff outside engineering.
  • Legal asks what StackBlitz's new privacy policy means for company accounts.

Evaluation criteria

  1. Model training and dataset licensing

    Can Bolt train on our prompts and code?

    Look forYes, for content created from October 7, 2026, unless the user turns off Model training in account settings. StackBlitz may also license de-identified datasets built from that content to third parties. The setting is off by default in the EU, UK, and Switzerland. Accounts under a separate written agreement are excluded, and so are organization-managed accounts unless their admin enables the uses. Bolt's security page says Enterprise and Team customers under a master services agreement (MSA) or data processing agreement (DPA) are excluded. Have personal-account builders turn the setting off before company content goes in, because opting out does not unwind models already trained or datasets already delivered.

  2. Bolt Forge

    Is anyone using the open-model agent?

    Look forFind out who uses Forge. Since its research preview ended on October 14, 2026, only Lite subscribers who signed up by that date can use it. Pro plans lost access, and Teams and Enterprise plans never had it. While Forge is on, StackBlitz may use the prompts, code, project files, and fix traces it processes to train models and to prepare de-identified datasets licensed to third parties. The Model training opt-out does not apply. Accounts located in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland are excluded. Switching to another agent stops new collection and leaves collected data in place, so anyone who ran company work through Forge should request removal from privacy@stackblitz.com.

  3. Database rules

    Can one user read another user's data?

    Look forRun the database security check on any plan, and on paid plans the full audit, which reviews who can see and change data, sign-in, input handling, and keys. In an outside scan published in April 2026, 21 of 289 bolt.host apps had critical Supabase access issues, most of them prototypes left online.

  4. Site visibility

    Who can open the live app?

    Look forPublish privately until launch. Free sites are always public and indexable. Paid plans can publish privately to invited people and trusted email domains, and a site with a custom domain must be public. Teams admins can set Private only for every team project. Since mid-October 2026, Pro and Teams builders can choose Private or Public when they publish from a phone, and adding individual viewers or trusted domains still happens on desktop.

  5. Project access and secrets

    Who can see the code and the keys?

    Look forGive edit rights sparingly. Viewers can open the project, its code, and the running app, and Editors and Co-owners also see environment variables. Store secrets in the database secrets settings and keep them out of code. Keep external collaboration off for team projects unless a project needs it.

  6. Identity and admin

    How do people sign in, and what happens when they leave?

    Look forDecide whether you need SSO or audit logs. Audit logs come only with Enterprise. Bolt's pricing table lists SSO on Teams and Enterprise, while its help center says SSO sign-in is Enterprise only, so get SSO on Teams confirmed in writing. Enterprise supports Okta, Azure AD, and other SAML providers. Teams has admin and member roles, integration controls for GitHub, Stripe, and Supabase, member and usage exports, and the personal account restriction. Accounts are StackBlitz accounts, managed at stackblitz.com.

  7. Compliance and deployment

    What can security review, and where can it run?

    Look forRequest Bolt's SOC 2 Type II report through its trust profile at trust.bolt.new. Enterprise offers deployment into your own AWS or Azure tenant. Projects run inside a browser WebContainer while you build. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher, and StackBlitz is based in the United States.

Questions to ask vendors

  1. Is every person who builds with company material on a Teams or Enterprise account under a signed agreement?
  2. Have personal-account builders turned off Model training, and did anyone use Bolt Forge on company work?
  3. Who runs the security audit and reviews database rules before an app that reads company data is shared?
  4. Is Private only publishing set for the team?
  5. Do we need audit logs, which only Enterprise includes, and will Bolt confirm SSO on Teams in writing?

Red flags

  • Company code or data prompted from personal accounts with Model training on.
  • Bolt Forge used on anything confidential.
  • Apps that read company data published publicly, including old prototypes left online.
  • Secrets pasted into prompts or frontend code.

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  1. Bolt Help Center: Account settings (Model training)Official documentationsupport.bolt.new
  2. StackBlitz Privacy Policy (last updated Sep 22, 2026)Official documentationstackblitz.com
  3. StackBlitz Terms of ServiceOfficial documentationstackblitz.com
  4. Bolt Help Center: Release notesOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  5. Bolt Help Center: Bolt ForgeOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  6. Bolt blog: What is Bolt Forge?Official documentationbolt.new
  7. Bolt Help Center: Check your project's securityOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  8. Bolt Help Center: DatabaseOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  9. Bolt Help Center: Publish your project to a live websiteOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  10. Bolt Help Center: Share your projectOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  11. Bolt Help Center: Team settingsOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  12. Bolt Help Center: Create and manage your accountOfficial documentationsupport.bolt.new
  13. Bolt for EnterpriseOfficial documentationbolt.new
  14. Bolt: SecurityOfficial documentationbolt.new
  15. Bolt Trust CenterOfficial documentationtrust.bolt.new
  16. securityscanner.dev: Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit, who is leaking the most Supabase data (Apr 16, 2026)Public sourcesecurityscanner.dev
  17. Bolt Help Center: Bolt Forge, what happens after the preview ends on October 14Official documentationsupport.bolt.new
  18. Bolt Help Center: Publish your project (private publishing on mobile for Pro and Teams)Official documentationsupport.bolt.new