Who publishes this
This site and the OpenContext software are published by Alec Merle, the maintainer of OpenContext, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
(c) 2026 Dovah LLC. All rights reserved.
Contact routes:
- Public questions, bug reports, and feature requests: the issue tracker on GitHub. The repository is private during the closed beta, so the tracker is open to invited testers; anyone else can reach the maintainer through their GitHub profile.
- Security problems: private vulnerability reporting on the repository, never a public issue.
- Email, including legal notices and privacy requests: alecmerle.biz@gmail.com.
The website
Every page here is documentation about OpenContext. The site has no accounts, no forms, no comments, no payments, and no API. It sets no cookies and loads nothing from another origin; the cookie policy and the privacy policy have the detail.
Reading and quoting. You may read, link to, quote, and summarize the site's text, and you may let an AI system read or index it, as the site's ai.txt and robots.txt already say. Please cite the page you used. You may not present the text as your own, remove its attribution, or use it to impersonate OpenContext or its publisher.
Trademarks. OpenContext is the name of this project. Anthropic, Claude, OpenRouter, Google, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, GitLab, X, Cursor, Codex, and the other product names on this site belong to their owners. They are named to describe what the software connects to, and nothing here means those companies endorse OpenContext or have any part in it.
Images, fonts, and icons. The site includes OpenContext brand artwork, product screenshots, and third-party service marks. The self-hosted Outfit font uses the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Dependency and identified icon attributions are recorded in the third-party notices. The provenance review for supplied artwork and service marks is still incomplete. These terms do not grant rights to third-party assets or imply endorsement by their owners.
The software
OpenContext ships under the evaluation license in the repository, which is the full statement of what you may do with it. In short, and without changing that license:
- What you get. Invited evaluators may use authorized browser code and, if separately supplied, install, back up, run, and modify a local copy on machines they control for personal or internal business evaluation. The license is free during the private beta. Model-provider charges are between you and your provider. The license does not create a hosted account or promise that the hosted service is available.
- What you may not do. Redistribute it, sell it, sublicense it, offer it as a hosted or managed service, or remove the license notice, without the publisher's written permission.
- Your data is yours. The license covers the software only. As between you and the publisher, you retain your rights in your documents, vault, graph, and exports, subject to underlying third-party rights. The publisher claims no ownership of them. The current local app does not send its vault to the publisher merely because you use it. Hosted use will require processing on service infrastructure under separate service terms and a hosted privacy policy.
- Feedback. The publisher may use suggestions you choose to send without compensation or attribution obligations. This does not transfer ownership of your private documents or support attachments.
- The beta ends. The license lasts for the closed beta. When it ends, you keep your vault and every file the software produced, and you stop using the software unless you accept the terms of a later release.
The private-beta license is dated September 11, 2026. A later release may offer different terms without changing your ownership of your content. Hosted browser access is in preparation and will have its own service terms and privacy policy presented before account creation. The current website and local-app policies do not describe a live hosted service.
Your responsibilities
You are responsible for what you put into your own vault: for having the right to use the documents you ingest, for other people's personal data those documents may carry, and for the terms of every third-party service you connect with your own credentials (your model provider, Google, GitHub, GitLab, X). The software's privacy screening is a safeguard, not a substitute for your own judgment, and it is described honestly on the privacy page: it catches specific patterns and deliberately does not flag names, email addresses, phone numbers, or company financials.
No warranty
The website and the software are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Content produced by AI models can be wrong. The knowledge graph and every answer, insight, and suggestion the software generates are assistance, not advice, and you are responsible for verifying anything you rely on.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the publisher is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, lost profits, or lost data arising from the website or software. Total liability is limited to US $100. Nothing excludes liability or rights that applicable law does not permit an agreement to exclude. For an authorized hosted account, its service terms govern service liability.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Where the law of your country of residence gives you rights that cannot be waived by agreement, those rights are not affected.
Changes
When these terms change, the date at the top of this page changes with them, the page's markdown twin shows the exact wording, and the repository's history records every edit. A material change to the software license is announced in the changelog before a release that carries it.