Licence terms

Draft. Not legal advice and not in force. These terms were drafted from how the software works and how it is planned to be sold. They have not been reviewed by a lawyer and must be before Cordbay is sold or this page is relied on. Text in [SQUARE BRACKETS] is a placeholder that still has to be decided or confirmed.

Last updated: [EFFECTIVE DATE]

These terms are an agreement between you and [YOUR COMPANY NAME] (“we”, “us”) for the use of Cordbay: the desktop app, the cordbay command-line tool and the cordbay-tui terminal UI, with their updates and documentation (“the software”). By installing or using the software you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not install or use it.

If you use the software for a company or other organisation, you agree on its behalf and confirm you are allowed to.

1. The licence

Cordbay is licensed, not sold. When you have paid for a licence, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the software on up to 3 computers at a time that you own or use, running macOS, Windows or Linux, for your own personal or internal business purposes.

The licence is for one person. It is not shared within a team or an organisation: each person who uses the software needs their own licence.

The licence is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and it does not expire. It includes every update, as section 7 describes.

To use the software on another computer when 3 already hold the licence, deactivate it on one of them first, under Settings → Licence in the desktop app or with cordbay licence deactivate. That frees the computer’s place for the new one.

2. Licence keys

A licence is delivered as a licence key. Keep it private. You are responsible for use of the software under your key. We may disable a key that has been shared publicly, refunded or charged back, or used in breach of these terms.

Activating a key registers the computer with our licence service, which counts the computers the licence is used on; the app checks the licence with it about once a day. Activating and deactivating a computer need an internet connection. Everything else does not: a licensed copy keeps working while it is offline, and an activation made offline is completed the next time the app is online.

3. What you may not do

You may not, except where the law gives you a right that cannot be excluded:

  • copy the software other than to install it as allowed above and to keep a backup;
  • sell, rent, lend, sublicense or otherwise give the software or your licence key to anyone else;
  • decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the software, or try to obtain its source code;
  • remove or get around licence checks or other technical limits;
  • remove copyright or other notices;
  • use the software to break the law or the rights of others.

4. Ownership

The software is closed-source. We and our licensors own it and all rights in it. These terms give you only the licence in section 1.

5. Your content

Your skills, agents, settings and git repositories are yours. We claim no rights in them. The software stores them on your computer and syncs them through a git repository that you choose and control. We do not host them, cannot access them and cannot recover them for you.

You are responsible for your content, for having the right to use and sync it, and for keeping backups. Sync adds, changes and removes files in your skill and agent folders and in your sync repository; read the documentation before changing how sync is set up.

6. Services from others

The software works with services that we do not run, including:

  • the git host of your sync repository;
  • GitHub, to check for and install skill updates;
  • skills.sh, to search for skills;
  • TypeSafe AI’s Jev service, only if you add your own Jev API key;
  • coding-agent tools installed on your computer, such as Claude Code or Codex, when you ask the software to generate an agent.

Your use of each of these is governed by your own agreement with its provider, and any charges they make are yours. We are not responsible for them, for their availability, or for changes they make that stop a feature of the software working. The privacy policy at cordbay.com/privacy/ describes what the software sends to each.

Skills and agents that you install from other people are third-party content. They can instruct a coding agent to act on your computer. Review them before you use them. We do not review, endorse or take responsibility for them.

7. Updates

We may release updates that add, change or remove features. Your licence covers every update we release, including new major versions, at no extra cost. We are not obliged to provide updates or support unless we have said so in writing. [TO CONFIRM once built: whether the software checks for updates by itself.]

8. Price, payment and refunds

The price is the one shown when you buy: a single payment, USD 79 when these terms were written, with no subscription or renewal fee. Payment is handled by [PAYMENT PROVIDER] [as merchant of record, TO CONFIRM], whose terms also apply to the purchase. Taxes may be added depending on where you are.

[REFUND POLICY, TO DECIDE. FOR LAWYER REVIEW: mandatory consumer withdrawal and refund rights, for example the 14-day right for EU and UK consumers and how it applies to digital content.]

9. Warranty

[FOR LAWYER REVIEW: warranty disclaimers and liability limits are restricted by consumer law in many countries and must be adapted to where you sell.]

To the extent the law allows, the software is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the software will be free of errors, that it will not lose data, or that it will keep working with third-party services.

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by agreement.

10. Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost data, lost profits, or indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising from the software or these terms, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for the licence [in the 12 months before the claim, TO CONFIRM].

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

11. Ending the licence

You may stop using the software at any time. The licence ends automatically if you materially breach these terms and do not put it right within [NUMBER] days of being asked. When the licence ends you must stop using the software and remove it. Your content stays on your computer and in your git repository. Sections 4, 5, 9, 10 and 13 continue to apply.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms for future versions of the software. [TO CONFIRM: how you are told, and that changes do not reduce the rights you already paid for.]

13. General

  • Governing law. These terms are governed by the law of [YOUR JURISDICTION], and its courts have jurisdiction, without taking away protections that the law of your country of residence gives you as a consumer.
  • Export. You may not use or export the software in breach of export control or sanctions law that applies to you.
  • Whole agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about the software.
  • Severability. If a part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.
  • Transfer. You may not transfer this agreement. We may transfer it to a successor of our business.

14. Contact

[YOUR COMPANY NAME], [YOUR REGISTERED ADDRESS], [YOUR CONTACT EMAIL].