These terms cover two things: this website, and the OpenContext software as it is licensed during the closed beta. Using the site or running the software means you accept them. They are written in plain language on purpose, and the plain language is what binds.
Who publishes this
This site and the OpenContext software are published by Alec Merle, the individual who writes and maintains OpenContext and holds its copyright, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. There is no company behind OpenContext at the time of writing. 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.
The images. Every image on the site (the logo mark, the favicon, and the link-preview card) was drawn for OpenContext by its publisher and is covered by the same terms as the text. The site uses no stock photography, no screenshots of other products, and no third-party fonts.
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. During the closed beta, a person who receives the software from its publisher may install and run it on machines they control, to evaluate it and give feedback. It is free of charge. Running it costs whatever your own model provider charges for the calls you trigger, and that spend is between you and your provider.
- 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. Knowledge vaults, documents, and anything you create or ingest with the software remain entirely yours. The publisher claims no rights in them and, in the local build, receives no copy of them.
- Feedback. If you send feedback, bug reports, or suggestions, the publisher may use them without obligation to you.
- 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 final license is a pending decision, and a later release may carry a different one. A change of license never takes back a vault: your data stays yours under every version.
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 any claim, damages, or other liability, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, arising from or connected with the website, the software, or your use of either, including lost data, lost profits, and the cost of model calls. You run the software on your own machines, with your own credentials, at your own risk. Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions, in which case they apply to you only as far as that law permits.
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.