Octyl Terms of Service

Effective date: 3 November 2026 · Version: tos-2026-11-03

The short version

A plain-language summary of how Octyl handles your data. It is not a substitute for the full text below; where they differ, the full text controls. octyl privacy prints the same summary.

Your code stays yours. Octyl never receives your code, prompts, or file or repo names. Your AI tools talk to their makers directly.
Receipts say how a run went: model and version, runtime, settings, public extensions, type of work, time, cost, outcome. See the next one before it’s sent: octyl contribute show --next. Everything sent, byte for byte: octyl contribute log.
Contributing receipts is how Octyl works, on every plan. Every run’s receipt goes to the Reef, linked on our side to a random contributor ID, never your name, email, team or company, and used only to delete your contributions, handle concerns and catch attempts to skew results.
The Reef is open evaluations. Weekly public results, only for groups of 20+ people and 20+ runs, never attributed to a person, team or organization. We don’t license Reef data today. If we ever do, it will be deidentified aggregates only, and we’ll tell you first.
You’re in control. Something in a receipt identifies you? octyl contribute report holds it out of the Reef at once, and we reply within 5 business days. Erase: octyl contribute delete removes your receipts from Octyl (raw upload copies expire within 90 days); results already published in the Reef stay, since they’re group totals never tied to you. A copy: octyl contribute export.
Otherwise, just your account: name, username, email and phone number. Telemetry and crash reports are off until octyl telemetry on, and Octyl turns off your AI tools’ own usage reporting where they offer a way. The web app logs usage and errors. Debugging needs your OK: one issue at a time, deleted within 30 days, never used for the Reef or training.
Teams: chatter is references, never code; file, branch and agent names are scrambled, notes sealed. The relay sees commit SHAs and line numbers for about 10 minutes. Messages between teammates, and between your phone and computer, are end-to-end encrypted and the relay can’t read them; teammates’ messages wait sealed up to 7 days for devices that are offline. The team trial and referral seats need an ID check by Stripe; we keep only the result, never your ID or photo.
Your privacy rights: we follow the CCPA for everyone, wherever you live. California: see our Notice of Financial Incentive.

The full text follows.

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Octyl Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Octyl”, “we”, “us”). They govern your use of:

the octyl program and the other Octyl software you install, and their updates (the “Software”);
octyl.ai, app.octyl.ai and related sites (the “Sites”);
Octyl on your phone (the “Companion”);
Octyl’s online services: sign-in, plans and entitlements, the team relay, receipt and crash report intake, the Reef, and any paid plan (the “Services”).

Together these are the “Product”. If you accept these Terms for an organization, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organization too.

Other documents apply to some parts of the Product and control on their own subject where they conflict with these Terms: the End User License Agreement (“EULA”, the Software), the Receipt Terms (receipts and the Pilot), the Acceptable Use Policy, and any order form or data processing addendum you sign with us. The Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.

1. What Octyl is, and what it is not

1.1 Local-first. The Software runs on your computer. It starts AI coding agent programs (“Third-Party Agents”, for example Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and opencode) in separate git worktrees of repositories on your machine. Your code, prompts, diffs and agent output stay on your machine unless you or a Third-Party Agent send them somewhere.

1.2 You install and sign in to Third-Party Agents yourself. You obtain each Third-Party Agent directly from its maker (“Provider”) and sign in to it through the Provider’s own sign-in, with your own account, subscription or API key. Octyl does not sell, resell, bundle, pay for or stand between you and any Provider’s models or subscriptions.

1.3 We never handle your Provider credentials. The Product does not ask for, collect, store, transmit or proxy your Provider passwords, OAuth tokens, session tokens or API keys, and Octyl’s servers never receive them. Traffic between a Third-Party Agent and its Provider goes directly between them; Octyl is not a party to it.

1.4 Not affiliated. Octyl is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or partnered with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or any other Provider, unless we say so in writing for a specific Provider. Product and company names belong to their owners and are used only to say which programs the Software can start.

2. Your relationship with Providers

2.1 You must follow your Providers’ terms. Your use of each Third-Party Agent is governed by your agreement with its Provider, including its terms of service, usage policies, acceptable-use rules, rate and usage limits and any restriction on automated, parallel or unattended use. Some consumer subscriptions are sized for ordinary, individual use. You are solely responsible for making sure that the way you use the Product (including the number of agents you run at once, running agents unattended, and working with a team) is allowed under each of those agreements.

2.2 Providers may limit your account. A Provider may throttle, rate-limit, suspend or close your account, or change its terms, models, prices, limits or programs, at any time and for reasons Octyl does not control. Octyl is not responsible for any such action, for any fees a Provider charges you, or for any loss caused by one, and does not guarantee that any Third-Party Agent will be available or work with the Product.

2.3 No Provider rights flow through Octyl. Nothing in these Terms gives you any right in a Provider’s service, and nothing in a Provider’s terms gives you any right against Octyl.

2.4 Provider output. Output a Third-Party Agent produces is governed by your agreement with its Provider. As between you and Octyl, Octyl claims no ownership of it.

3. Accounts

3.1 You need an account to start agents with the Software; only the demo runs without one. Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider (Clerk). A signed-in Software install keeps working offline for a grace period of 7 days after its entitlement expires, then asks you to reconnect before starting new agents; it never stops agents already running.

3.2 You must give accurate information, keep your sign-in methods secure, and tell us promptly at security@octyl.ai about any unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity under your account and under any machine or paired device linked to it. You can see and revoke linked machines and devices.

3.3 Age. You must be at least 18 years old, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. The Product is for developers and is not directed at children.

4. License to the Software

4.1 Your license to the Software is the EULA. It sets out what you may and may not do with the Software, including the restrictions on redistribution, reverse engineering and circumvention.

4.2 You may not (a) sell, rent, sublicense or offer the Product as a hosted service to others; (b) reverse engineer the Services or try to derive their source code, algorithms, models, prompts or protocols; (c) remove notices; (d) circumvent or tamper with technical protection measures, including entitlement checks, agent limits, signed grants, signing, sandboxing, or telemetry and receipt integrity (which may also be unlawful, for example under 17 U.S.C. 1201); (e) use automated means to extract data or functionality from the Services, or probe, scan or test their vulnerabilities, except as EULA section 4A allows; (f) use the Product, or anything obtained in breach of this section, to build a competing product, or benchmark it to extract its non-public logic; or (g) use it in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. This section does not restrict what applicable law expressly permits notwithstanding it, or open-source components under their own licenses.

4.3 Updates. The Software checks for and offers updates. Some updates may be required to keep using the Services.

5. Your content

5.1 You own your content. “Your Content” means your code, repositories, prompts, task text, diffs, agent output, notes and other material you create or process with the Product. You keep all rights in it. The Product is designed so that Your Content does not leave your machine through Octyl.

5.2 Content you choose to send us. If you send us Your Content directly (for example in a support request), you give Octyl a limited license to use it only to respond to you and operate the Services.

5.3 Teams. When you join a team, the Software sends coordination messages (chatter) through the team relay. Names are scrambled with a key your team holds, notes can be sealed, and messages between teammates are end-to-end encrypted; the relay holds none of those keys. You decide who is on your team.

5.4 Debugging and support data. Apart from what sections 5.2 and 6 and the Privacy Policy describe, Octyl collects diagnostic data from your machine or account (for example logs, a local receipt, session logs, configuration, or access to a repository) only under these conditions:

(a) Your explicit opt-in, per issue. You approve each request separately, in the Product or in writing, after we tell you what we will collect and why. These Terms, a general consent or a support ticket alone is not approval.

(b) Scoped. The approval covers one issue and only the data listed in the request. We do not use it to look at anything else.

(c) Time-limited. We delete it when the issue is resolved or 30 days after we receive it, whichever comes first, unless you ask in writing for us to keep it longer for that issue, or the law requires us to keep it.

(d) Never for the Reef or training. We do not use it to build receipts, Aggregate Data or Reef results, and we do not use it to train AI models.

(e) Logged. We record each request, what was collected, who at Octyl accessed it and when it was deleted, and we send you that record on request to privacy@octyl.ai.

You can withdraw an approval at any time; we then stop collecting and delete what we have for that issue. Crash reports and usage events you turn on with octyl telemetry on are covered by the Privacy Policy, not by this section.

6. Receipts and Aggregate Data

6.1 Definitions. “Receipts” are the run summaries described in the Receipt Terms, limited to the fields listed there (never code, diffs, prompts, file names or paths, repository or branch names, terminal output, environment variables or secrets). “Usage Data” means Receipts, outcome updates, crash reports and usage events, and service data generated by your use of the Services (for example sign-in and entitlement records). “Aggregate Data” means data derived from Usage Data of many users that is combined so that it does not identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, you, your team, your organization, a repository or a single run.

6.2 Contributing receipts is how Octyl works, on every plan. On every plan (Free, Pilot, Pro, Team and Enterprise), the Software sends a Receipt after each agent run it starts. There is no plan, setting or environment variable that turns this off. The Receipt Terms govern Receipts and must be accepted before agents start.

6.3 License to Receipts. You grant Octyl a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable (subject to section 6.5) license to use, copy, store, analyze and create Aggregate Data from your Receipts and outcome updates, for the purposes in section 6.4.

6.4 What we do with it. Octyl may use Usage Data and Aggregate Data to: (a) operate, secure and support the Product; (b) improve the Product; and (c) publish aggregated results in the Reef. Anything we publish from Receipts contains only Aggregate Data, covers groups of at least 20 people and 20 runs (smaller groups are suppressed or generalized), is never attributed to a person, team or organization, and never includes individual Receipts, contributor IDs, account identifiers, email addresses or receipt ids. We don’t license Reef data today. If we ever do, it will be deidentified aggregates only, and we’ll tell you first.

6.5 Your control. You can see exactly what was sent, byte for byte, report a concern about any Receipt, and delete your Receipts, as the Receipt Terms and Privacy Policy describe. Deletion removes your Receipts and outcome updates from Octyl and leaves them out of every result computed afterwards. Results already published in the Reef do not change: they are frozen group totals that never identified you.

6.6 Your right to contribute. By contributing Receipts about work you do for an employer or client, you confirm you are allowed to. If you are not sure, ask them before running that work with Octyl.

6.7 We do not train on Your Content. Octyl does not receive Your Content through the Product, does not use Your Content or individual Receipts to train AI models, and never gives individual Receipts to anyone.

7. Plans

7.1 Free lets you run up to 12 agents at once. The Pilot, by invitation, adds teams of up to 3 people. The paid plans (Pro, Team and Enterprise) add more agents and team features when they are offered. Every plan contributes Receipts (section 6.2).

7.2 Plan limits are enforced by a signed grant the Software receives when you sign in. If Receipts can’t upload for more than 24 hours (for example you are offline), team features pause and you can run up to 12 agents at once until they send again.

8. Fees

8.1 Free and the Pilot cost nothing.

8.2 If you subscribe to a paid plan, these terms apply in addition to the price and terms shown when you subscribe: we bill in advance through our payment processor (Stripe) for each monthly or yearly period; your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel; you can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current period; we do not refund partial periods, except where the law requires; prices exclude taxes, which you pay where they apply; and we give at least 30 days’ notice by email before a price change takes effect at your next renewal.

8.3 Your Provider subscriptions and API usage are billed by your Providers, not by Octyl. Cost figures the Software shows are estimates from public list prices and may not match what a Provider charges you.

9. Feedback

If you give us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

10. Third-party software and services

The Product works with software and services we do not control (Third-Party Agents, git hosts such as GitHub, operating systems, app stores, push services). Your use of them is governed by their terms. We are not responsible for them.

11. Suspension and termination

11.1 You can stop using the Product at any time and delete your account on your account page at app.octyl.ai, or by writing to privacy@octyl.ai.

11.2 We may suspend or end your access to the Services (a) if you breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, (b) to protect the Services, other users or third parties, (c) if required by law, or (d) if we stop offering a Service, with at least 30 days’ notice where practical. Agents already running keep running; starting new agents needs an account in good standing.

11.3 Reverse engineering and circumvention. If you breach section 4.2 or EULA section 4, we may immediately suspend and permanently end all of your accounts and licenses, and your entitlements end. Octyl may pursue all remedies available at law or in equity, including injunctive relief, and may refer conduct to law enforcement; violations may also violate laws such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

11.4 Manipulating receipts or the Reef. If you manipulate Receipts or outcome updates, or try to control what the Reef publishes (Acceptable Use Policy section 2A), section 11.2 applies: we may suspend or end your access, and that of the accounts involved.

11.5 Sections 4.2, 5, 6 (as to Aggregate Data already created), 9, 11.4 and 12 to 18 survive termination.

12. Disclaimers

THE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OCTYL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. AI AGENTS CAN WRITE INCORRECT, INSECURE OR DESTRUCTIVE CODE AND RUN COMMANDS ON YOUR MACHINE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWING THEIR OUTPUT, FOR SANDBOX AND PERMISSION SETTINGS, AND FOR BACKUPS. OCTYL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY THIRD-PARTY AGENT WILL WORK WITH THE PRODUCT, THAT THE PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT COST OR BENCHMARK FIGURES ARE ACCURATE.

13. Limitation of liability

13.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OCTYL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, CODE OR GOODWILL, OR FOR ANY ACTION A PROVIDER TAKES ON YOUR ACCOUNT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.

13.2 OCTYL’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE PRODUCT IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID OCTYL IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) US$100.

13.3 Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits; they apply only as far as the law permits. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

14. Indemnity

If you use the Product for a business, you will defend and indemnify Octyl against third-party claims arising from Your Content, your breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or your breach of any Provider’s terms. This section does not apply to you if you use the Product as a consumer.

15. Export control and sanctions

The Product is subject to US export control and sanctions laws, including the Export Administration Regulations. You confirm you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of a country or region subject to comprehensive US sanctions or embargoes, and are not on a US restricted-party list. You will not export, re-export or transfer the Product in breach of those laws. EULA section 11 has the detail.

16. Governing law and disputes

16.1 These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

16.2 Before bringing a claim, you and Octyl will first try to resolve the dispute informally: write to legal@octyl.ai (or we write to your account email), and both sides will try in good faith for 30 days.

16.3 If that fails, the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and Octyl consent to them. Either side may instead bring an individual claim in a small claims court where it qualifies.

16.4 If you are a consumer in the EU, UK or another place whose law gives you the right to sue at home or under mandatory local law, nothing in these Terms takes that right away.

17. Changes

We may change these Terms. For material changes we give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the Product before they take effect, except where a change is required by law or addresses a security issue. Changes to the Receipt Terms follow the Receipt Terms: you are asked to accept the new version before new agents start.

18. General

18.1 Entire agreement. These Terms and the documents they name are the entire agreement between you and Octyl about the Product.

18.2 Severability; no waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, it is changed to the minimum extent needed and the rest stays in force. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver.

18.3 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, and will tell you.

18.4 Force majeure. Neither side is liable for failing to perform because of events beyond its reasonable control.

18.5 Notices. We send notices to your account email or show them in the Product. You send notices to legal@octyl.ai.

18.6 No third-party beneficiaries; English controls. No one else has rights under these Terms. If they are translated, the English version controls.

19. Contact

Octyl Labs, Inc. · legal@octyl.ai