Terms of Service

gotcontext provides a semantic compression platform that reduces the token count of text and code sent to large language model (LLM) providers. The Service comprises the REST API, MCP gateway, dashboard, SDKs, Claude Code plugin, and supporting documentation. Plan tiers, included request volumes, rate limits, and feature availability are described on the pricing page and are part of these Terms.

We may change, add, or remove features over time. Material removals that reduce functionality for paying Customers will be communicated by email or in-app notice with at least 30 days' advance notice.

You must provide accurate account information and keep it current. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your API keys, OAuth tokens, and any other credentials we issue. Keys beginning with gc_ authorize the full set of actions allowed on your plan — treat them like passwords.

You must notify us promptly at team@gotcontext.ai if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account. You remain responsible for all activity that occurs under your account until you notify us.

Third-party AI model providers. Our dashboard may let you connect a third-party AI provider (for example, OpenRouter) and select from models that provider makes available, including models offered at no cost by that provider. Any such provider is not affiliated with us, and your use of it is governed by that provider's own terms, privacy policy, and acceptable-use rules — review them before you connect an account. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the availability, accuracy, safety, or handling of data by a third-party provider's models, including how a free-tier model provider may use, retain, or share the content you send it. Selecting a free model does not change any other provision of these Terms, including Section 4 (Customer data and inputs) and Section 8 (Warranties and disclaimers).

You agree not to, and not to permit anyone else to:

• submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or invasive of another person's privacy;
• use the Service to build or train a competing compression or LLM product, or to extract model weights, training data, or proprietary algorithms;
• attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or derive the source code of any closed component of the Service except to the limited extent permitted by law;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except through our coordinated disclosure program;
• interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, including by circumventing rate limits, quotas, or plan-gating;
• use the Service to generate, distribute, or facilitate spam, malware, or illegal content;
• submit user-generated content — including benchmark results, comments, or posts — that promotes a commercial product, service, or business (including your own) without clearly disclosing your affiliation in the same post, or that embeds referral or affiliate links whose primary purpose is marketing rather than technical discussion;
• submit benchmark results, scores, or comments that are fabricated, materially exaggerated, or that you have not actually obtained, or encourage others to submit inflated or gamed results;
• resell the Service or its compressed outputs to third parties without a written reseller agreement with us;
• submit or process personal data of third parties (such as employee records, customer databases, or medical or financial information) through the Service without first executing a Data Processing Agreement with us;
• violate applicable export-control laws or use the Service in an embargoed jurisdiction.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section, with or without notice depending on severity. Where practicable we will attempt to notify you and give you an opportunity to cure before terminating.

Community content you submit — including benchmark results, comments, and Q&A — is subject to automated (AI-assisted) and human moderation for spam, undisclosed promotion, and fabricated results. We may hold, remove, shadow, or decline to publish content that violates this section, and may remove gamed or fraudulent submissions from public leaderboards without notice. You may appeal an individual content decision within 30 days at team@gotcontext.ai.

You own your data. Text, code, and other content you submit to the Service ("Customer Data"), together with the compressed outputs we return, remain yours. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to process Customer Data solely as necessary to provide and secure the Service for you and to enforce these Terms.

We do not use Customer Data to train foundation models — ours or anyone else's. We do not sell Customer Data, and we do not share it with advertising or data-brokerage networks. Specific retention windows and handling practices are described in our Privacy Policy and Security page.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit Customer Data to the Service and that your submission does not violate the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party.

The Service — including our compression algorithms, semantic tokenizer, model weights, source code, UI, documentation, and trademarks — is and remains the property of gotcontext. Except for the limited rights we grant in these Terms, you receive no rights in or to the Service.

Compressed outputs produced from your Customer Data are yours. Generic statistics, aggregated usage metrics, and abstract performance benchmarks that do not identify any Customer may be used by us to operate and improve the Service.

If you voluntarily give us feedback or suggestions about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use that feedback without obligation to you.

Paid plans are billed through Polar, which acts as our Merchant of Record, issues invoices, and handles applicable sales taxes and VAT. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price of your plan until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the billing page of your dashboard; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or where we have materially failed to deliver the Service. Unused usage does not roll over between billing periods. Metered overages (Team and Enterprise) are billed in arrears at the rate published on the pricing page.

Late payment: if a payment fails and is not cured within 14 days, we may suspend paid features until payment is received.

The Service is provided on a best-effort basis for Free and Pro plans. Team and Enterprise plans may include specific availability targets as documented in an order form or an Enterprise addendum. Scheduled maintenance windows and incident status are published at gotcontext.ai/status.

Some aspects of the Service — principally calls to upstream LLM providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — depend on infrastructure we do not control. We are not responsible for outages or degradation caused by such upstream providers, though we make commercially reasonable efforts to fail over or degrade gracefully.

We will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Service. Except for the foregoing, the Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranty of any kind.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, timely, error-free, or free from harmful components.

Compression-accuracy disclaimer. Compression is lossy and probabilistic. Compressed output is a representation of your input, not a verbatim reproduction, and may omit, reorder, paraphrase, or otherwise alter content, including material details, qualifications, negations, numerical values, code, and legal terms. You are solely responsible for reviewing and verifying any compressed output before relying on it, and must not rely on it as a complete or accurate substitute for the original content in any legal, financial, medical, safety-critical, or regulated context. We expressly disclaim any warranty that compressed output will faithfully preserve all meaning, nuance, or accuracy of the original.

By us. We will defend you against any third-party claim alleging that the Service, as provided by us and used in accordance with these Terms, directly infringes a valid US patent, copyright, or trademark, and we will pay any damages finally awarded against you on the claim, or agreed in a settlement we approve. This obligation does not apply to claims arising from (a) Customer Data, (b) combinations of the Service with products we did not supply, or (c) use of the Service in violation of these Terms.

By you. You will defend us against any third-party claim arising from (a) your Customer Data, including any allegation that it infringes IP or violates privacy rights; (b) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law; or (c) your downstream use of compressed outputs in a manner we did not authorize, and you will pay damages or settlements associated with such claims.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party's aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms will exceed the greater of (a) the fees you paid to us for the Service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100.

Neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, or cost of substitute services, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. The caps and exclusions in this section apply regardless of the theory of liability and whether or not the limited remedies in these Terms fail of their essential purpose.

The exclusions in this section do not apply to (i) a party's indemnification obligations, (ii) Customer's payment obligations, or (iii) liabilities that cannot be limited by law.

Each party will protect the other's confidential information with at least the same care it uses for its own confidential information, and will use it only to exercise rights or perform obligations under these Terms. Customer Data is your confidential information. Details about the Service's non-public pricing, architecture, roadmap, and metrics are our confidential information. This section does not apply to information that becomes public through no fault of the receiving party or that is independently developed without reference to the disclosing party's information.

These Terms remain in effect for as long as you use the Service. You may terminate by closing your account in the dashboard. We may terminate or suspend your access with notice for material breach that is not cured within 30 days, or immediately for breaches of Section 3 (Acceptable use) or non-payment beyond the cure window in Section 6.

On termination: (a) your right to use the Service ends; (b) you can export your Customer Data — specifically your usage metadata (request history, token counts, compression ratios, API key identifiers) — within 30 days of termination through the dashboard or by contacting support. Original compression payloads are ephemeral (semantic-cache TTL by plan: none on Free, 1 hour on Pro, 24 hours on Team, 7 days on Enterprise) and are not retained for export. (c) After the 30-day export window we will delete remaining Customer Data in the ordinary course of our backup rotation, which completes within 60 days. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19) survive.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before bringing a formal claim, the parties agree to attempt in good faith to resolve disputes for thirty (30) days through direct negotiation. If that fails, any remaining dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules, seated in Wilmington, Delaware, in English, by a single arbitrator. Either party may seek injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information. Class-action and jury-trial rights are waived to the extent permitted by law.

You may not use the Service if you are located in or ordinarily resident in a country or region subject to US government export sanctions, or if you are on any US government list of restricted parties. You represent that you are not a prohibited party and that your use of the Service will comply with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws.

Neither party is liable for failure to perform due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, war, terrorism, labor unrest, civil unrest, government action, internet-backbone failure, or large-scale upstream AI-provider outage. The affected party will make reasonable efforts to resume performance.

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will notify account holders by email or in-app notice at least 30 days before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, you may terminate your account before the effective date.

The Service includes community features — including forums, comment threads, benchmark discussions, profiles, and user-submitted posts ("User Content"). You are solely responsible for User Content you post, and you represent that you have all rights necessary to post it and that it does not violate these Terms, the Acceptable use policy in Section 3, or any law or third-party right.

License to display. You retain ownership of your User Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute your User Content solely to operate, promote, and improve the community features and the Service. This license ends when you delete your User Content or your account, except for copies retained in routine backups or as required by law.

No endorsement; no monitoring obligation. User Content reflects the views of the user who posted it, not ours. We do not pre-screen User Content and are not responsible or liable for it. Consistent with applicable law (including 47 U.S.C. § 230), we provide an interactive computer service and are not the publisher or speaker of User Content provided by others.

Moderation and removal. We may — but are not obligated to — review, moderate, edit, restrict, remove, or refuse any User Content, and may suspend, ban, or terminate accounts, at our discretion and without liability, including for violations of these Terms or the Acceptable use policy, or to comply with law. We may remove content immediately and without prior notice where it poses a legal, security, or safety risk.

Community conduct. In addition to Section 3, you may not post User Content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, hateful, threatening, sexually exploitative, infringing, deceptive, spam, malware, or that discloses another person’s private information without consent. You may report content that violates these Terms through the in-product reporting tools; we review reports and act at our discretion.

Copyright (DMCA). We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. To submit a notice, email legal@gotcontext.ai with the information required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): identification of the work and the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, a good-faith-belief statement, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act.

The Service includes a community marketplace at gotcontext.ai/skills where users will be able to publish a SKILL.md file, install instructions, and any accompanying configuration for other users to discover and install into their own AI coding tools (each, a "Skill"). Submission is not open yet; the directory currently lists nothing, and this Section governs Skills if and when you publish one. A Skill is User Content under Section 17, and the license, moderation, and removal terms in that section apply to Skills in addition to the terms below.

Authorship. When you submit a Skill, you represent that you authored it or otherwise hold all rights necessary to submit it and to grant the license described in Section 17, and that it does not infringe any third party's rights.

The security scan is advisory, not a guarantee. Every Skill is run through gc_skill_scan, our automated static analyzer, before publication and again on a recurring basis after publication. gc_skill_scan is automated static analysis. It flags patterns and structural risks in the submitted files; it does not execute the Skill, and it does not reason about intent the way a human reviewer would. A scan result, including a passing or no-findings result, is not a warranty, certification, or guarantee that a Skill is safe, non-malicious, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose. You install and use third-party Skills at your own risk, and you should review a Skill's contents yourself before installing it, particularly before granting it access to credentials, source code, or production systems.

No endorsement. A Skill's presence in the marketplace, and any gc_skill_scan verdict attached to it, reflects the output of an automated tool at a point in time. It is not our endorsement, certification, or recommendation of the Skill or its author.

Moderation, re-scanning, and removal. We may review, withhold publication of, re-scan, withdraw, or remove any Skill at any time, with or without notice, including where an initial or recurring gc_skill_scan run returns a critical-severity finding, where we cannot obtain a trustworthy scan result (for example, on a scan timeout or error), or where we receive a credible report that a Skill is unsafe, infringing, or otherwise violates these Terms.

Relationship between users. A Skill is authored and published by the submitting user, not by us. The disclaimers in Section 8 and the indemnification obligations in Section 9 apply to Skills as User Content, and we are not a party to, and disclaim liability for, any dispute between a Skill's author and a user who installs it.

The Service includes agent-to-agent ("A2A") features that let an AI agent connected to your account discover, delegate tasks to, and request or share designated resources with another agent, whether that agent is yours or belongs to a different gotcontext customer (a "Peer"). This includes our public A2A capability manifest (published at /.well-known/agent.json), cross-account Peer connections, task delegation, and share requests.

User-initiated and user-controlled. A2A actions occur only when initiated by your account, or by an agent acting under your API key or session, and a share request is fulfilled only after the receiving Peer's account approves it. We do not initiate task delegation or approve share requests on your behalf, and we do not share your Customer Data with a Peer except as a direct result of an A2A action taken through your account or the Peer's.

Your agent's actions are your actions. Any task you delegate, any share request you send or approve, and any resource you expose to a Peer through A2A features is treated as your own act for all purposes under these Terms, including the Acceptable use policy in Section 3, the representations in Section 4 (Customer data and inputs), and the indemnification obligations in Section 9. You are responsible for configuring, supervising, and reviewing what your agent delegates, requests, and approves.

No vetting of Peers. We do not verify the identity of, vet, or endorse any Peer. Connecting to, delegating a task to, or sharing a resource with a Peer is your decision, and you are solely responsible for evaluating a Peer's trustworthiness before doing so.

A2A features are part of the Service and are provided subject to Section 8 (Warranties and disclaimers) and Section 10 (Limitation of liability). A dispute arising from an A2A interaction, including a delegated task or a shared resource, is between you and the relevant Peer; we are not a party to that relationship and disclaim liability for a Peer's acts or omissions.

Questions about these Terms, legal notices, or formal disputes can be sent to team@gotcontext.ai. General questions can go through the contact form.