Terms of Service

Version 1.4 · Takes effect on the date it is published

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you", "your") and Pathrule ("Pathrule", "we", "us", "our") and govern your use of the Pathrule CLI, the Pathrule VS Code extension, the local and hosted MCP servers, the Pathrule cloud service (Pathrule Cloud), and the website at pathrule.io (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, signing in, installing the CLI or the VS Code extension, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy). If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Service availability notice. Pathrule features may change, break, or be removed as the Service evolves. By using the Service you accept that it is provided "as is" unless a separate written agreement says otherwise. See Section 10.

1. Eligibility & account

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation to these Terms, and "you" includes that organisation.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for everything that happens under your account. Notify us at privacy@pathrule.io as soon as you suspect unauthorised access. You may not share an account between multiple individuals; each individual must use a separate seat.

2. The Service

Pathrule is a shared memory, rule, and skill layer for AI coding agents. The Pathrule CLI and the Pathrule VS Code extension connect coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. The Service also includes a local hook supervisor, MCP servers, managed AI features and a cloud backend (Pathrule Cloud) that stores memories, rules, skills, work episodes and activity logs you author.

2.1 Surfaces

The Service is delivered through the following surfaces. Not every capability is available on every surface, and availability may change.

Earlier products and features, including the former desktop application and the Pathrule iOS app, are no longer offered. Content created with them that remains in the Service is Your Content under Section 6.

We may add, change, or remove features at any time. Where a change materially reduces functionality of a paid plan you have already paid for, we will give you reasonable advance notice and, on request, pro-rate any unused fees as a credit on your account.

3. Plans & billing

3.1 Plans

Pathrule is offered through tiered plans. Plan names, prices, AI Credits and included features are listed on pathrule.io/pricing and in-app. The current plan structure is:

Solo and Pro are for one person and do not include team invites. Team is billed per seat with a minimum of two seats; every member of the organisation is a seat, the account owner who pays included. Annual billing offers a discount versus monthly billing.

Some access, such as bespoke arrangements with individuals or companies, is granted manually and may include terms that supplement these Terms; if those supplemental terms conflict with these Terms, the supplemental terms control for that access only.

3.2 Payment

Payments are processed by Stripe. By providing payment information you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge the payment method you select for all fees and applicable taxes. You are responsible for keeping your payment method current.

3.3 Auto-renewal & seat changes

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly or annual) at the then-current price for your plan, until you cancel. You may cancel at any time from your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and you keep access until then. When you cancel in Pathrule Web we may ask why and, in some cases, offer a discount on your next invoices instead. An offer is shown before you confirm and applies only if you accept it. A move to a lower plan, including Solo, takes effect the same way.

When a cancellation or a move to a lower plan takes effect, Your Content (memories, rules, skills, the knowledge graph and workspaces) is kept. Content above the lower plan's limits stays available, and actions that need the higher plan, such as creating Cloud workspaces above its limit, inviting members or using Team Intelligence, are not available until you move back.

To add seats you confirm the change on Stripe's confirmation page; the added seats take effect immediately and are billed pro rata for the rest of the current billing period. Inviting a member beyond the seats you pay for needs another seat first. Removing seats takes effect at the end of the current billing period, like a move to a lower plan, and removed seats are not credited or refunded (Section 4).

3.4 Taxes

Listed prices exclude applicable taxes (VAT, sales tax, withholding) unless stated otherwise. You are responsible for taxes assessed on your purchase, except those based on our income.

3.5 Failed payments

If a payment for an active paid subscription fails, we retry collection in line with Stripe's standard dunning and show a notice in Pathrule Web asking you to update your payment method.

• Your paid plan stays active for a 7-day grace period, counted from the first failed payment we verify. Further failed attempts or repeated notices do not restart it.
• If payment succeeds within the grace period, your subscription continues normally.
• If payment still fails when the grace period ends, your organisation moves to the Solo plan. Your Content is kept and nothing is deleted; actions that need the paid plan are limited as described in Section 3.3 until payment succeeds, which restores the paid plan.

Cancellation (Section 3.3) and the end of a billing period are separate from a failed payment and are not given a grace period.

3.6 Usage allowances

Some capabilities carry a plan allowance in addition to the features listed on pathrule.io:

• AI Credits. Managed AI features that Pathrule runs for you, such as Ask Pathrule and Cloud Intelligence inference, use AI Credits from one monthly pool per organisation, in the amounts listed on pathrule.io/pricing (on Team, per paid seat). Credits renew each month, do not roll over and cannot be moved between organisations. When the pool is exhausted, those features are unavailable until it renews; there is no overage charge. The credits each feature uses are published before it uses any. Syncing your knowledge across devices never uses credits.
• Signals. Cloud Signals ingestion is part of the paid plans listed on pathrule.io and is capped as published in the docs.
• Service safeguards. Every plan has the same technical safeguards per organisation (for example Cloud workspaces, managed storage and indexed entries), listed on pathrule.io/pricing, so that one organisation cannot exhaust shared capacity. Memories, rules and skills are not limited by count.
• AI-assisted features. Managed AI features that Pathrule runs for you are subject to fair-use rate limits so that one organisation cannot exhaust shared capacity.

We may adjust allowances as provider costs and usage patterns change. Where a reduction materially affects a paid plan you have already paid for, Section 2 applies.

4. No refunds

All fees are non-refundable, except where required by mandatory law. You may cancel at any time; on cancellation you keep access until the end of the current billing period. We do not refund, in full or pro rata, partial periods, downgrades, unused seats, or accidentally upgraded plans, and we do not refund for periods where you did not use the Service.

Where mandatory consumer law in your jurisdiction grants you a right of withdrawal that we cannot waive, that right applies; otherwise this Section controls.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to allow any user, agent, or third party to:

• Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, infringes intellectual-property or privacy rights, or facilitates illegal activity.
• Upload or paste into Pathrule any content you do not have the right to use, including secrets, credentials, API keys, or third-party customer data.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code or model weights from the Service, except to the extent expressly permitted by law.
• Resell, sublicense, or repackage the Service or its managed AI features as your own product, or expose them as a generic model proxy or API to third parties.
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or programmatically extract data from the Service except through documented APIs and within published rate limits.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or circumvent any authentication, rate-limit, or access control, without our written authorisation.
• Use the Service to send spam, phishing, malware, or other harmful content.
• Attempt to interfere with the Service's operation, including by overwhelming it with requests or by interfering with other users.
• Use the Service to develop a directly competing product, or to benchmark it for the purpose of building a competing product.

6. Your content

6.1 Ownership

You retain all ownership of memories, rules, skills, activity logs, and any other content you submit to the Service ("Your Content"). We do not claim ownership of Your Content.

6.2 Licence to operate the Service

You grant Pathrule a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to our sub-processors as needed to run the Service) licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display, and process Your Content solely as necessary to:

• Provide the Service to you and to other members of workspaces you authorise;
• Run the managed AI features you use, including processing by the AI model providers listed in the Privacy Policy;
• Make backups and ensure operational continuity;
• Enforce these Terms and comply with law.

6.3 No use of Your Content to train foundational AI models

We do not use Your Content to train new general-purpose or foundational AI models, and we do not sell Your Content. We may use aggregated, de-identified, or operational data derived from your use of the Service to operate, debug, monitor, and improve Pathrule itself: for example to tune how context is selected, surface common failure patterns, evaluate the quality of managed AI features, prevent abuse, and prioritise product work. Where this processing relies on personal data it is governed by our Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy).

6.4 Your responsibility for Your Content

You are solely responsible for Your Content and for ensuring you have the right to submit it to the Service. Pathrule Cloud keeps each organisation's content separate and checks access on the server for every request, but you are responsible for what you choose to store. Do not paste secrets or third-party customer data into Pathrule.

7. AI outputs

Managed AI features run on AI models hosted by our providers (today, models served through Cloudflare Workers AI, and Anthropic's Claude for naming knowledge topics in Pathrule Cloud), selected per feature, and return their outputs to you and to your AI agent. Outputs of the coding agent you use come from that agent's own provider. If you connect your own model provider to a local installation, that provider's terms govern its processing. AI outputs:

• Are generated by third-party models and may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or unsuitable for your purpose;
• Should be treated as suggestions, not professional advice, and reviewed by you before being relied upon;
• May reproduce copyrighted material; you are responsible for ensuring your use of an output complies with applicable law.

Pathrule does not warrant the accuracy, fitness, or non-infringement of AI outputs, and we are not liable for decisions made or code shipped on the basis of an AI output. Always review AI-generated code, configuration, or guidance before applying it.

8. Third-party skills & services

Pathrule allows you (and your AI agent on your behalf) to discover and install skills published by third parties, for example through the find-skills protocol that searches public registries and GitHub repositories. Third-party skills are not created, vetted, audited, or endorsed by Pathrule. We disclaim all liability for the content, security, behaviour, or licensing of third-party skills, and you install and run them at your own risk.

Pathrule's protocols instruct AI agents to seek your explicit approval before installing or invoking third-party content. However, the actual behaviour of an AI agent is determined by the agent's host runtime (for example Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), not by Pathrule. If an agent acts without asking, or acts on an over-broad approval, the responsibility for the resulting installation or action rests with you, not with Pathrule. Configure your agent's permissions accordingly.

The Service may also link to or interoperate with third-party services such as Anthropic, Stripe, GitHub, the AI coding engines you use, and identity providers. Their terms and privacy policies govern your use of those services. Where a surface is distributed through a third-party store (for example the Visual Studio Marketplace, Open VSX, npm, or Homebrew), that store's terms also apply to the distribution of that build.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, including all software, designs, brand, logo, copy, and documentation, is owned by Pathrule and its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property law. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service in accordance with these Terms; we reserve all rights not expressly granted.

You may submit feedback, bug reports, or suggestions ("Feedback"). You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use Feedback for any purpose, including improving the Service, without obligation to you.

10. Service availability

The Service is offered on a best-effort, "as available" basis. We do not commit to any uptime, response time, or service-level target unless a separate written agreement says otherwise. Maintenance, outages, version migrations, and breaking changes can happen with little or no notice. We will try to communicate planned changes through the in-app interface or email where reasonable.

11. Suspension & termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel your subscription at any time. On cancellation you keep access until the end of the current billing period.

We may suspend or terminate your access, or terminate these Terms, if:

• You materially breach these Terms (including Section 5);
• Your account remains unpaid after the 7-day grace period described in Section 3.5;
• We are required to do so by law or by an order of a competent authority;
• We reasonably believe continued service to you creates a security, legal, or reputational risk to Pathrule or to other users.

Where lawful and practical we will give you prior notice and a chance to cure. On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 6.3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17) will survive termination.

After termination we retain or delete your data in line with our Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy).

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free of viruses or harmful components. No oral or written information from us creates a warranty not stated here.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• In no event will Pathrule be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
• Pathrule's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is capped at the greater of: (a) the fees you paid to Pathrule in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) USD 100 (or its equivalent in your local currency).

These limits apply to all claims under any theory of liability (contract, tort, statute, or otherwise) and reflect the agreed allocation of risk between you and Pathrule. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

14. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Pathrule and its affiliates and personnel from any third-party claim, demand, or proceeding, and any related losses, damages, settlements, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) Your Content; (b) your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or applicable law; (c) third-party skills you (or your agent) installed or invoked; or (d) your infringement of any third-party right.

15. Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, and without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rights you may have under the law of your country of residence.

The İstanbul Çağlayan Courts and Enforcement Offices have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, except where mandatory law gives you the right to bring proceedings in another forum (for example consumer courts in your country of residence).

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes we will:

• Update the version and effective date shown at the top of this page;
• Notify registered users by email and via an in-app banner at least 14 days before the changes take effect (30 days for changes that materially affect your rights or fees);
• Where required by law, ask for fresh acceptance.

Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service before the effective date.

17. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy) and any plan-specific or order-specific terms we agree with you in writing, are the entire agreement between you and Pathrule and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of that right.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or to an affiliate, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including network outages, third-party-provider failures, or government action.
• Notices. We may give you notice by email to the address on your account, via an in-app banner, or by posting on the website. You give us notice by emailing privacy@pathrule.io.
• Language. These Terms are published in English. Where translations are provided for convenience, the English version prevails in case of inconsistency.

18. Contact

• Operator: Pathrule
• Registered address: 30 Ağustos Zafer Mah. 73. Sok. No:3, Bursa/Nilüfer, Türkiye
• Email: privacy@pathrule.io
• Website: pathrule.io

Questions about these Terms? Email privacy@pathrule.io.