Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: July 18, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy (this "Policy" or "AUP") governs your use of Terminal Skills — our AI-agent-skills marketplace, open-source skills library, Agent Playground, command-line tool, MCP server, and related interfaces available at terminalskills.io (together, the "Service"). The Service is operated by AIEmployees ("AIEmployees", "we", "us", or "our").

AIEmployees is the business name under which an independent entrepreneur operates; it is a sole proprietorship, not an incorporated or registered company, and not a separately registered legal entity. "Terminal Skills" and "AIEmployees" are unregistered trade names, and "Terminal Skills" is an unregistered trademark. Nothing in this Policy asserts any corporate, state, or trademark registration.

This Policy applies to everyone who uses the Service — visitors, account holders, and contributors — and it supplements and is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in the Terms. If there is a conflict between this Policy and the Terms, the Terms control. Please also review our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.

Violations of this Policy may result in suspension or termination of your account or access, removal or refusal of content, and other measures described in "Monitoring and Enforcement" below — with or without notice, as permitted by law.

1. General Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Service, or allow anyone acting on your behalf to use the Service, to:

• Engage in or facilitate illegal activity — anything that violates applicable law, regulation, or the rights of others, or that promotes or facilitates such activity.
• Infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights — upload, submit, contribute, or generate content that infringes copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, or the privacy, publicity, or other rights of any person or entity.
• Distribute malware or harmful code — introduce viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, backdoors, keyloggers, cryptocurrency miners, or any other malicious, destructive, or deceptive code, whether through a submitted skill, an uploaded file, a task prompt, or otherwise.
• Conduct phishing, fraud, or deception — impersonate any person or organization, misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or engage in phishing, scams, or other fraudulent or deceptive practices.
• Harass, abuse, or post hateful content — harass, threaten, bully, stalk, defame, or abuse anyone, or create or distribute content that is hateful, or that incites violence or discrimination against individuals or groups.
• Gain unauthorized access or circumvent controls — attempt to access accounts, data, systems, or networks you are not authorized to access, or to bypass, disable, or defeat any authentication, authorization, security, sandboxing, cost control, egress restriction, or other technical measure of the Service.
• Disrupt or overload the Service — interfere with, degrade, overload, or impair the Service or its underlying infrastructure, or interfere with any other user's use of the Service (for example, through denial-of-service techniques, resource exhaustion, or excessive automated requests).
• Scrape or bulk-extract beyond permitted use — crawl, scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract content, data, or catalog listings from the Service except as expressly permitted (for example, the open-source library is available under its license, and the public catalog is exposed through our documented CLI, MCP server, and API for ordinary use).
• Resell or re-expose access without authorization — resell, sublicense, lease, rent, or otherwise provide access to the Service, or to your account, credits, API, or MCP access, to third parties without our authorization.

2. Skills & Contributions

The open-source library and the Agent Playground let you use, submit, scan, forge, and contribute Skills. When you do, you agree that:

• No malicious or unsafe Skills. Skills and other content you submit, upload, scan, forge, or contribute must not be malicious. They must not exfiltrate data, install backdoors, open reverse shells, mine or harvest credentials or secrets, tamper with a user's system, or contain instructions designed to cause an AI agent to behave harmfully or deceptively (including prompt-injection payloads intended to subvert another user's agent).
• You must hold the rights. You must own or have the necessary rights and permissions to everything you submit or contribute, and your submission must not infringe the intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights of any third party.
• License to contributions. Content published to the public library is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0, unless an individual Skill specifies otherwise, and becomes part of the public Git history as described in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Do not contribute anything you are not willing to have redistributed under that license.
• Comply with invoked platforms. Skills frequently invoke third-party platforms, APIs, and tools. You are responsible for complying with the terms, policies, and rate limits of any third-party platform a Skill interacts with, and for holding any credentials or authorizations those platforms require.
• Accurate provenance. Do not misrepresent the authorship, origin, or provenance of a Skill or contribution.

Skills flagged as suspicious or malicious by our tooling are refused before they are staged or run. Our automated review is a safeguard, not a guarantee — the responsibility for what you submit remains yours.

3. AI Feature Use

The Agent Playground and related AI features run on third-party AI models. When you use them, you may not:

• generate or attempt to generate content that is deceptive, fraudulent, defamatory, infringing, or otherwise unlawful;
• use AI features to impersonate a real person or organization, or to produce spam or other misleading content at scale; or
• use AI features to develop malware, exploits, or other content prohibited by this Policy.

AI output is probabilistic and may be incomplete, inaccurate, or unsafe. You are responsible for reviewing any code, command, Skill, or other output an AI agent produces before relying on it, publishing it, or executing it — especially in a production environment. Do not submit secrets, credentials, or sensitive personal data into task prompts or uploaded files.

4. Account Security

You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Specifically:

• Keep your password confidential and do not share your account with others.
• Authentication is by email and password only (there is no third-party social login). Your password is never stored in plaintext — we store only a bcrypt hash of it — and your session is carried in a stateless JSON Web Token in an httpOnly cookie marked Secure in production that is cleared when you log out and otherwise expires after 7 days. Because sessions are stateless, an individual token cannot be centrally revoked before it expires, so protecting your device and logging out on shared machines is important.
• Notify us promptly at support@terminalskills.io if you suspect any unauthorized access to or use of your account.

5. API and Rate Limits

The Service applies rate limits, quotas, daily allowances, and per-run cost caps to keep it available and fair for everyone. You may not:

• evade, disable, reset, or otherwise circumvent any rate limit, quota, cost cap, or other technical restriction (for example, by cycling accounts, spoofing request headers, or fragmenting requests);
• use scripts, bots, or other automated means to abuse, overload, or extract from the Service beyond ordinary permitted use; or
• place an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service or its infrastructure.

6. Automation, API & MCP

Programmatic access — the terminal-skills CLI, our public MCP server, and our API — is provided for legitimate use of the Service. When such access is account-scoped, it is intended solely for authenticated automation of your own workflows, scoped to your own account. You may not:

• share, pool, proxy, or re-expose your account, credits, API, or MCP access to third parties; or
• use programmatic access in any way that violates Section 1 or Section 5.

The terminal-skills CLI, our MCP server, and our public API expose only the public skills catalog; they do not read your account, playground runs, or billing. Do not misuse these interfaces to overload the Service, to bulk-extract the catalog beyond permitted use, or to redistribute content in violation of its license. We may log and review usage to detect abuse, and we may rate-limit, restrict, or disable any tool or endpoint at our discretion.

7. Anti-Spam

The Service is not a bulk-messaging or mass-communication tool. You may not use it to send spam or unsolicited bulk communications, or to generate content intended to facilitate them, and you must comply with all applicable anti-spam and communications laws.

8. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of a Skill, contribution, account, or activity that violates this Policy — including a Skill you believe to be malicious or unsafe — please report it to us at support@terminalskills.io (subject "Attn: Legal"). You may also raise issues through our public GitHub Issues or Discussions, linked from our contact page. Please include enough detail for us to identify and investigate the matter.

9. Monitoring and Enforcement

We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, and investigate use of the Service and content submitted to it to enforce this Policy and protect the Service and its users. Where we identify a violation, or where activity creates risk to the Service, other users, or third parties, we may — with or without notice, as permitted by law — issue a warning; remove, restrict, or refuse content; refuse or halt agent runs; reduce or revoke access to tools or endpoints; and suspend or terminate accounts or access. Skills flagged as suspicious or malicious by our tooling are refused before they run. Our decision not to act on a particular violation does not waive our right to act on it or any other violation later. Nothing in this Policy limits any other remedy available to us under the Terms of Service or applicable law.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy as the Service evolves. The "Last updated" date above reflects the most recent revision, and material changes will be highlighted on the website. Your continued use of the Service after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.

11. Contact

Questions about this Policy, or reports of prohibited conduct, can be sent to support@terminalskills.io (subject "Attn: Legal"), through our contact page, or to AIEmployees at aiemployees.us. See also our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Data Processing Addendum, and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.