Terms of Service

Effective date: November 10, 2026

The short version: Standard Agents is for business and professional use. Building agents locally is free. The Pro plan lets you deploy them to Standard Agents hosting. Model usage that we route for you is paid from usage credit, at the provider's price plus a router fee. The Standard Agents Builder runtime runs in production only on Standard Agents hosting, and the agents you build are yours and are portable. You can cancel whenever you want. Your code and everything your agents produce belong to you, and we never train on your data. AI can be wrong, so you decide what ships. All fees and credit are non-refundable. Disputes go to individual arbitration, and you can opt out within 30 days.

1. The agreement

These terms are a contract between you and FormKit Inc., doing business as Standard Agents ("we," "us") covering Standard Agents: the platform, the Standard Agents Builder software and CLI, Standard Agents hosting, our websites, and our documentation. By creating an account or using Standard Agents, you agree to them. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data. Our Data Processing Addendum is part of these terms.

Business use only. You represent that you use Standard Agents for business or professional purposes, and that you do not use it for personal, family, or household purposes.

If you use Standard Agents for a company or other organization, you agree for that organization and confirm that you have the authority to do so. You must be at least 18 years old.

We operate Standard Agents from the United States, and it is directed to customers in the United States.

Standard Code is a separate product with its own terms. Your sign-in account is shared between the two.

2. Plans

Standard Agents has two plans. The table shows their current features.

Change plans anytime. Moving to Pro takes effect at once. The plan details shown in the product when you buy apply if they differ from this table.

We may change or remove any feature, model, provider, plan, price, fee, or credit at any time. The product shows the current ones.

3. The software licence and hosting

The Standard Agents Builder software ships with a licence file in each package. That licence has three grants.

• Runtime packages (builder, cli, agentbuilder-template, and the Standard Agents Builder skill): you may install and use them for local development and testing, and in production only on hosting that Standard Agents operates ("Standard Agents hosting"). No permission is granted to host, deploy, or run them in production anywhere else. That includes your own servers and your own account with any cloud provider.
• Client libraries (client, react, vue): you may use them in any application on any host, in development and in production, and distribute them as part of that application.
• Provider packages and provider-pricing: you may use them, in development and in production, on any runtime that conforms to the Standard Agent Specification.

Your agents belong to you. The licence applies to our software. It does not apply to the agents, prompts, tools, and other definitions that you write. Nothing here restricts where you run your agents. You may run them on any runtime that conforms to the Standard Agent Specification.

The licence is limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable. The licence file governs the software, and these terms govern the service. If the two conflict about the software, the licence file controls.

4. Acceptable use

Standard Agents is for building agents and running them for your own product and your own users. The platform, the hosting, and the model routing are included to support that work.

What breaks the deal:

• Hosting the runtime elsewhere. Running the runtime packages in production outside Standard Agents hosting, or working around the measures that prevent it (Section 3).
• Reselling bare model access. Routed inference is for your agents. Don't resell it as a pass-through API with no agent of your own.
• Abusing credits and limits. One starter credit per person. Creating more than one account to collect starter credit is a breach, and we may revoke the credit or charge you for the usage. Don't avoid billing or usage caps, or deliberately exhaust the underlying model providers.
• Misleading addresses. Don't choose a project name or subdomain that impersonates another person, company, or product.
• Harming your users. If your agents serve other people, give them your own terms and privacy notice, collect only data you have the right to collect, and follow the usage policies of the model providers you choose.
• Illegal or harmful use. No malware, no attacking systems you aren't authorized to test, nothing unlawful.

If usage looks like the list above, we may rate-limit or take a project offline while we investigate, and we reserve the right to terminate accounts that violate this section.

5. Your code and content

Your code, agents, prompts, conversations, and files are yours. You give us the license needed to operate, secure, bill for, and improve the service: storing your projects, sending them to the model providers you choose, and showing them back to you. We never train on your data and never sell it, as covered in the Privacy Policy.

The output your agents produce is yours, to the fullest extent we can grant it. Review it. AI-generated output can be wrong, insecure, or unfit for your purpose, and you decide what ships.

Your agents and your users. You are solely responsible for the agents you deploy, for their actions and output, and for how you and your users use them. The people who use them are your users. For their personal data, you are the business or controller, and we are your service provider or processor under the Data Processing Addendum. Your project stores your threads and a log of each model request, including prompt text, until you delete the thread or the project. Deciding how long to keep them is yours.

Keep your own copies. We have no duty to store or back up your code, content, or data. Keep your own copies of everything you need.

What we own. We own the service and the software. We also own usage data about how the service is used, aggregated and de-identified data, and any feedback or suggestions you give us, and we may use them for any purpose without payment to you.

6. Billing and credits

Pro is billed monthly at the pricing shown at checkout and on your billing page. Stripe processes payments. Cancel anytime from your billing settings; future charges stop and service runs through what you've paid for.

No refunds. All fees and credit are non-refundable, except where the law requires a refund. This applies when you cancel and when we suspend or end your account, with or without cause.

Usage credit. Model requests that we route for you are paid from your credit balance. Each request costs the provider's price plus the router fee for your plan. Requests made with your own provider keys do not pass through our router and carry no fee.

• Starter and promotional credit. A new Hobby account currently receives a one-time starter credit of $2, once per person, whatever the number of accounts, projects, or sign-in methods. Starter and promotional credit expires when we say it does. Today starter credit expires at the end of your first billing cycle. A person who joins with a workshop code receives the workshop credit in place of the starter credit.
• Plan credit. The credit included with Pro is granted each billing cycle and expires at the end of that cycle. Spending draws on plan credit first.
• Purchased credit. You can buy credit at any time. Purchased credit does not expire while your account is open and in good standing.
• Auto top-off. If you turn it on, we charge your saved card when your balance falls below the threshold you set. You can turn it off anytime.

Credit has no cash value and can't be transferred. We may revoke credit if you breach these terms. Unused credit is forfeited when an account ends, including when we end or ban it for breach. When your balance reaches zero, routed requests stop until you add credit. Spend caps in the product help you control usage. Caps are a tool and are no guarantee against charges.

Your account and keys. You are responsible for all use of your account and your API keys, and for every charge that use creates. This includes use by someone who obtained a key you leaked or failed to protect.

Chargebacks. A chargeback or payment dispute for a charge you owe is a breach of these terms. We may suspend your account at once. You owe the disputed fees, plus our costs of collection and our reasonable attorneys' fees.

You pay any sales or similar tax that applies to your purchase.

7. The service

We don't promise uninterrupted availability. We give no uptime commitment and no service credits, and downtime gives no right to a refund. We may change or remove any feature, model, provider, plan, or price at any time.

Model providers. Model providers are third-party services that you select. You choose a provider and a model by writing an agent that uses them, and we require none of them. The providers we offer are listed in the Providers section of our documentation. When your agent calls a model, we send the request to that provider on your instruction. Your choice of a provider is your instruction and your authorization to send it your content. If you choose a model through OpenRouter, OpenRouter selects the host that runs it. A provider can change, limit, or withdraw a model, and we may add or remove providers. The Privacy Policy describes how we configure our accounts with the providers we offer.

Project addresses. We assign each deployed project a subdomain. The name is first come, first served, and you gain no ownership of it. We may reclaim or change a subdomain at any time. Custom domains on Pro stay yours.

Previews. Preview deployments are temporary. We delete a preview and its data after 7 days without a new push.

8. Disclaimers and liability

Standard Agents, the software, and all model and agent output are provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, and statutory, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

AI output. We give no warranty that the output of any model or agent is accurate, complete, lawful, or fit for any purpose. You are solely responsible for your agents' actions and output, and for every use of them.

To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim is capped at the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or US $50. We are not liable to you for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data.

The cap and the exclusions protect us only. They do not limit what you owe us: your duty to pay, your responsibility under Section 9, and your liability for breach of the software licence in Section 3. We give you no indemnity of any kind. Nothing here limits liability that can't legally be limited.

9. Your responsibility for claims

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FormKit Inc. and its officers, employees, and contractors against any third-party claim, and the related damages, penalties, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees, that arises from:

• your agents and anything they do or produce;
• your users and their use of your agents;
• your code and content, including a claim that it infringes someone's rights or was collected or used unlawfully; or
• your breach of these terms or of the law.

We will tell you about a claim promptly. We may take over the defense at your cost if you do not defend it properly, and you may not settle a claim in a way that binds us without our written consent.

10. Suspension and termination

Cancel anytime. We may suspend or end any account, free or paid, and take any project offline, at any time and for any reason, with no notice required.

We give no refund of any kind when we suspend or end an account, with or without cause.

When an account ends, for any reason, its deployed projects stop, its subdomains are released, and your licence to run the runtime packages in production ends. Unused purchased credit, plan credit, and starter credit are forfeited. Your agents stay yours. Take a copy of your source code through Git before your account ends. We may delete all data in an account at any time after it ends, and we have no duty to provide data after an account ends. Sections 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, and 14 continue after an account ends.

11. Copyright complaints

If you believe content hosted on Standard Agents infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to our agent:

Copyright Agent, FormKit Inc., doing business as Standard Agents
961 2nd St SE, Suite 303B, Charlottesville, VA 22902
[email protected]

Your notice must include your signature, the work you say is infringed, the material you want removed and where it is, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized, and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act. We remove or disable access to material named in a valid notice, tell the customer, and accept a counter-notice that meets the statute. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement in this section.

Talk to us first. Before either of us starts a formal claim, the one with the claim sends the other a written notice that describes the claim and the relief sought. Send yours to [email protected]. We send ours to the email address on your account. We both then have 60 days to settle. Any limitation period for the claim is paused during those 60 days. Neither of us may start an arbitration or a court case until they end.

Binding individual arbitration. Any dispute related to these terms or to Standard Agents that is not settled in that time will be resolved by binding arbitration, and not in court, except as this section says. The American Arbitration Association administers the arbitration: under its Consumer Arbitration Rules if you are an individual, and under its Commercial Arbitration Rules if you are a business. One arbitrator decides. The seat is Charlottesville, Virginia, and hearings may be held remotely. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief that a court could. A court with jurisdiction may enter judgment on the award.

No class or representative actions. You and we will bring claims only on an individual basis. Neither of us will bring or join a class, collective, or representative action or arbitration against the other, and the arbitrator may not combine the claims of more than one person, except as the next paragraph allows. If this waiver is held unenforceable for a claim, that claim is severed and goes to court under the venue paragraph below. It never goes to class arbitration.

Batching. If the same or coordinated counsel files 25 or more similar demands against us, the demands proceed in batches of 25. Each batch has one arbitrator and one set of fees. The batches proceed one after another, and the remaining demands wait until their batch starts. Limitation periods for the waiting demands are paused.

Small claims court. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court in place of arbitration.

Claims we may bring in court. We may go to court to collect unpaid fees, to enforce the software licence in Section 3, to protect our intellectual property, and to seek an injunction.

Your right to opt out. You may opt out of arbitration by emailing [email protected] from your account email within 30 days after you create your account. If your account existed when this section took effect, you may opt out within 30 days after we give notice of it under Section 13. If you opt out, the rest of these terms still applies, and disputes go to court under the next paragraph.

Court venue. For every dispute that is outside arbitration, the state or federal courts located in or serving Charlottesville, Virginia have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we consent to jurisdiction and venue there.

Jury trial waiver. To the maximum extent the law allows, you and we each waive the right to a trial by jury in any dispute related to these terms or Standard Agents.

Time limit for claims. You must start any claim related to these terms or Standard Agents within one year after the claim arises. A claim that is not started within that year is permanently barred.

Our costs. If we prevail in an action to collect fees or to enforce the software licence, you will pay our reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.

13. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms at any time. We give notice by posting the updated terms and by showing them to you in the product whenever you use the dashboard after a change. We may refuse deploys until the account owner accepts the updated terms. We may also send an email, and we have no duty to. You agree to the updated terms when you accept them on that screen, or when you use Standard Agents after their effective date. If you do not agree, stop using Standard Agents and cancel before they take effect.

14. General

• Assignment. We may assign these terms, or any right or duty under them, without your consent. You may not assign them without our written consent.
• Severability. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, it will enforce that part to the extent it can, and the rest stays in effect.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for a delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control. These include outages of, or changes at, model providers, cloud and hosting providers, and payment processors, and failures of the internet.
• Export and sanctions. You will follow United States export control and sanctions laws. You confirm that you are not located in an embargoed country and are not on a United States list of restricted parties.
• Publicity. We may use your name and logo to identify you as a customer.
• Entire agreement. These terms, the Privacy Policy, the Data Processing Addendum, the licence files, and the plan details shown at purchase are the whole agreement between you and us about Standard Agents. They replace any earlier agreement or statement on the same subject.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a term, we keep the right to enforce it later.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]

FormKit Inc., doing business as Standard Agents
961 2nd St SE, Suite 303B
Charlottesville, VA 22902