--- title: "Terms & conditions ยท Cork" description: "The terms for using Cork: the free version and its licenses, plans that never block an agent, prices grandfathered forever, and the usual responsibilities." canonical: "https://corkcli.com/terms" last_updated: "2026-11-13" --- # Terms & conditions Last updated: October 3, 2026 These terms govern your use of Cork, operated by Lithometric. By installing Cork, creating an account or connecting an agent you agree to them. ## The service Cork coordinates AI coding agents that work on the same code: hooks in your agent tools, a program on your machine, an MCP server and a web dashboard. It is advisory infrastructure. It is designed to fail open, so an outage or error never stops your agents, and you remain responsible for your code, your merges and what your agents do. ## The software on your machine Cork's installer puts one program in `~/.cork` and adds its hooks to your agent tools' user settings (Claude Code, Codex and Cursor where present). It writes nothing into your repositories. It updates itself: it downloads a newer version only when that version is signed with Cork's release key and matches its published checksum. `cork uninstall` takes the hooks out. The source of the free version is public at [github.com/lithometric/cork](https://github.com/lithometric/cork). Its hooks, parser and Claude Code plugin are MIT licensed; its engine is under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-MIT), which lets you use, change and share it for anything except a competing product or service, and turns each version into MIT two years after its release. Those licenses govern that code; these terms govern the service. ## Your account and acceptable use Keep your credentials and workspace tokens secret; you are responsible for activity under them. Each credential belongs to one person: sharing one across people is not allowed. Don't use Cork to store or transmit unlawful content, don't attempt to access other workspaces, probe, overload or disrupt the service, and don't resell it without an agreement with us. ## Plans and billing **Cork, free and local,** runs on one machine with no account, at no cost and with no time limit. **Free** is 10 agent hours a month per account, plus 30 bonus hours in the first month: an agent hour is time the model is thinking and writing, read from the agent's own transcript; a tool's run time, your typing and idle time never count. **Agent hours** are bought in units of 100 hours a month, pooled across the workspace, through Stripe, monthly or annually (annual is 15% off), and priced graduated. When a month's hours are used up, sessions already running finish within a 10% grace band and new sessions wait; past the band every session stops after its current step. The owner may turn on an automatic top-up of one unit, under a spend cap they set. Seat plans (**Team**, **Business**) bought before agent hours keep their terms, unmetered, until November 1, 2027; moving to agent hours before then takes 20% off the first twelve months. Plan limits never block an agent: going past one produces a notice, and a workspace calling faster than its plan allows gets a short pause in Cork's answers. You can cancel any time from the billing page; paid periods already started are not refunded except where the law requires. **Locked prices:** the price when you subscribe is locked to your subscription and will not increase while it remains active. Seat plans end on the date above; until then their price holds. ## Your content You retain all rights to your code and data. You grant us the limited license needed to run the service: receiving the structure of the files your agents report (or parsing reported files in memory), storing the resulting metadata, activity and notes, and showing them to your workspace. See the [privacy policy](https://corkcli.com/privacy) for what is and is not kept. **Coordination data.** Separately from your code, the service generates data about how AI agents interact through it: intents, collision and reconciliation patterns, tool-call sequences and timing, and aggregate usage. That coordination data is owned by Cork, and you agree we may use it, including to operate, improve and train our own models and systems, now and in the future. We do not train on your source code, snippets, prompts or notes. Full detail is in the [privacy policy](https://corkcli.com/privacy). ## Disclaimers and liability The service and software are provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. Collision detection, briefings and savings figures are advisory; we do not warrant that every conflict is caught or that any particular saving will occur. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lithometric's total liability for any claim is limited to the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and neither party is liable for indirect or consequential damages. ## Termination You may stop using Cork, uninstall it and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, with notice where practicable. Sections that by their nature survive termination do so. ## Changes and contact We may update these terms; material changes will be noted on this page with a new date, and continued use constitutes acceptance. Questions: [kevin@lithometric.com](mailto:kevin@lithometric.com), or see [support](https://corkcli.com/support). This page in HTML: https://corkcli.com/terms