1. What these terms cover
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of the MonkeyForge desktop application (the “App”), the account you sign in with at app.monkeyforge.dev (the “Account”), the Desktop Lifetime license for the App (the “License”), and any online services we offer under the MonkeyForge name, including Remote Mirroring and the services we describe as “Cloud” (together, the “Services”). By creating an Account, buying a License or using the App you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
You are a “Consumer” if you use the Services outside your trade, business or profession. Otherwise you are a “Business”; if you use the Services on behalf of a company or another legal entity, you confirm that you may bind that entity, and “you” means that entity. Where these Terms say something applies to a Business only, a Consumer keeps the rights the law gives them instead; nothing in these Terms limits a right that cannot be limited by contract.
2. What MonkeyForge is, and what it is not
MonkeyForge is a local workspace for running coding agents and tracking tasks on your own computer. The App launches and drives third-party agents and command-line tools that you install and pay for yourself — for example Claude Code, Codex CLI or any program you run in a shell pane — using your own credentials and your own provider accounts. We do not provide those agents, we do not operate the AI models behind them, and we have no control over what they do, what they cost you or whether they are available. The App does not write, review or run code on its own; everything it runs, it runs because you started it.
Agents you run through MonkeyForge can read, create, change and delete files, run commands, install software, use your network and call paid APIs, on the same terms as if you had done it yourself. You decide which agents to run, in which folders, with which permissions, and you are responsible for the result, for reviewing what an agent did before you rely on it, and for the charges any provider bills you for it.
Output produced by an agent or model is yours as far as we are concerned: we claim no rights in it and we make no promise that it is correct, complete, secure, free of third-party rights or fit for any purpose. It is not professional advice of any kind.
3. Account and sign-in
You sign in with a third-party identity provider (currently GitHub or Google). You are responsible for that provider account, for keeping it secure and for everything done under your Account. Tell us at once if you believe your Account has been compromised. You must be at least 16 years old, and at least 18 to buy a License. One person, one Account; accounts are not shared or transferred.
4. The License
When you buy Desktop Lifetime we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use version 1 of the App, including every 1.x update we release, on any Mac you sign into with your Account, for as long as your Account exists and the License has not been revoked. A future major version is a separate product. The License is tied to your Account, not to a machine and not to a serial number.
The License does not include Cloud services, does not include any third-party agent, model, API or subscription, and is not a promise of specific future features. We aim to keep improving the App; what we ship is up to us. Features marked as beta, preview or experimental are offered for evaluation, may change or disappear without notice, and are provided without any commitment beyond what section 11 gives a Consumer.
You may not:
- share, sell, rent, sublicense or otherwise pass your Account or License to anyone else;
- circumvent or interfere with license checks, sign-in, pairing or any other security mechanism of the Services;
- reverse-engineer, decompile or extract the source code of the App except to the extent the law expressly allows;
- use the Services to break the law, to infringe anyone's rights, to attack other systems, or to interfere with other users or with our infrastructure;
- use the Services where a failure could lead to death, personal injury or serious physical or environmental damage (for example in medical devices, vehicles, aviation, nuclear or life-support systems) — they are not designed or tested for that;
- resell or offer the Services to third parties as your own service.
The App includes open-source components under their own licenses; the list is in the App. Those licenses govern those components. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without restriction or payment.
5. Purchases, prices and Paddle
Purchases are made through our reseller Paddle.com Market Ltd (“Paddle”), which acts as Merchant of Record: Paddle is the seller on your invoice, handles the order, payment, applicable taxes and refunds, and Paddle's Buyer Terms apply to the transaction together with our Refund Policy. Prices are shown before tax; Paddle adds the tax that applies where you are at checkout. Launch prices are limited to the number of places shown on the pricing page and change when a band sells out; the price you pay is the one shown at the moment you buy. We do not price-match earlier or later bands.
Before you pay you confirm that you accept these Terms and the Refund Policy, and you ask us to deliver the License as soon as your payment is confirmed. If you are a Consumer in the EU, the EEA, Switzerland or the United Kingdom, that request means you lose the 14-day right of withdrawal the moment the License is delivered, which is immediately after payment; we tell you this before you buy and you agree to it by ticking the box. The time of your consent and the versions you accepted are recorded in your account and on the transaction.
When Cloud services are offered as a subscription, the subscription renews at the end of each period at the then-current price until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time in the billing section of your Account, effective at the end of the current period. We tell you at least 30 days in advance of a price increase.
If a payment is reversed, charged back or refunded, the License or subscription it paid for ends and the App returns to its unlicensed state.
6. Remote Mirroring and Cloud
Remote Mirroring lets a browser you have explicitly paired watch, and if you allow it, type into terminals on your desktop through our relay. It only works when you turn it on, per machine and per workspace. You are responsible for which browsers you pair, for the level of access you grant, and for revoking access when a device is lost. Anything typed into a mirrored terminal runs on your machine as you.
Cloud services are provided as they are available. We may change, suspend or discontinue any Cloud feature; if we discontinue a paid Cloud service you have paid for in advance, we refund the unused part of the period. We do not commit to any uptime, response time or support turnaround unless a separate written agreement says so.
7. Your data and your machine
Your projects, source code, prompts, agent conversations, terminal history, task board and memory live on your machine and are yours. We do not access them and, apart from data passing through the relay while Remote Mirroring is in use, they never reach our servers. What we process about you is described in the Privacy Notice.
Backups and version control are your responsibility. Coding agents make mistakes. Keep your work in a version control system, keep backups, review what an agent did before you rely on it, and do not point an agent at anything you cannot afford to lose. We have no way to recover anything an agent changed or deleted on your machine.
8. Third-party services
Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google, Paddle and any other provider whose product you use with or through MonkeyForge have their own terms, prices and availability, and you must comply with them. We are not a party to your agreements with them and we are not responsible for their services, their charges, their outages or their decisions about your account.
9. Updates and changes to the Services
The App checks for and installs updates. We may change the Services, add or remove features and change these Terms. For material changes to these Terms we give at least 30 days' notice by e-mail or in the App; if you do not accept them, stop using the Services before they take effect. Continuing to use the Services after that date means you accept the changed Terms. A change that removes something you paid for in advance entitles you to a refund of the unused part.
10. Warranty
If you are a Business, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted or error-free operation, to the fullest extent the law allows.
If you are a Consumer, you have the statutory rights for digital content under the law of your country — in the Czech Republic Sections 2389a et seq. of the Civil Code — including the right to have a defect in the App itself fixed and to receive the updates needed to keep the App working as described for the period you can reasonably expect. Those rights are about the App: they do not extend to what a third-party agent, model or tool does, to your own machine or network, or to results you did not review.
For everyone: we do not warrant that any agent, model or tool you run through the App will produce correct, safe, secure or useful results, and we do not warrant that the Services will meet your requirements.
11. Limitation of liability
If you are a Business, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law: (a) the Operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, loss of or damage to source code or other files, loss of profits, revenue, business or goodwill, cost of substitute services, or charges billed to you by any third-party provider, arising out of or in connection with the Services — including anything done by an agent, tool or command that you ran through the App — even if we were advised of the possibility of such damages; and (b) our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Services in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount you paid us for the Services in that period, or CZK 1,000 if you paid nothing. You accept that the price of the Services reflects this allocation of risk.
If you are a Consumer, our liability to you is governed by the law of your country and is not limited by these Terms. What these Terms do say, and what is true for everyone, is what the Services are: the App runs the agents and tools you choose, on your machine, on your instructions. Damage caused by those agents and tools, by third-party services, or by your own use of the Services is not damage caused by us.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for death or personal injury, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited (in the Czech Republic, in particular Section 2898 of the Civil Code).
12. Indemnity
If you are a Business, you will defend and indemnify the Operator against claims, damages and costs (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party and arising from your use of the Services in breach of these Terms or of the law, from content you provided to an agent, or from anything an agent did on your instructions.
13. Suspension and termination
You can stop using the Services and ask us to delete your Account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your Account or License if you materially breach these Terms, if a payment is reversed, if we are required to by law or by sanctions rules, or if we reasonably believe your Account is being used to attack others. Where practical we tell you why, and a Consumer who has not breached these Terms is refunded the unused part of anything paid in advance. Sections 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 survive termination.
14. Export control and sanctions
You may not use the Services if you are, or act for, a person or entity subject to EU, UK or US sanctions, or from a territory embargoed by them, and you may not use the Services in breach of export-control law.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the law of the Czech Republic; the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. Disputes with a Business are heard by the courts of the Czech Republic with jurisdiction over the Operator's seat. If you are a Consumer in the EU, mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live continue to apply, and you may bring a claim in that country. Consumers in the Czech Republic may use the out-of-court dispute resolution of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce, www.coi.cz); consumers in the EU may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
16. General
We are not liable for a delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages of third-party providers, network failures, or acts of authorities. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor of the business, and will tell you if we do. Notices to you go to the e-mail address on your Account; notices to us go to support@monkeyforge.dev. These Terms are written in English; a translation is for convenience only and the English text governs. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and the unenforceable part is replaced by what comes closest to it lawfully. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, the Privacy Notice and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement between you and the Operator about the Services.
Operator
MonkeyForge is operated by Adam Todt, a sole trader registered in the Czech Republic, IČO 19197438, with the registered address Drahy 1625, 696 42 Vracov, Czech Republic (the “Operator”, “we”). Not a VAT payer. Contact: support@monkeyforge.dev.