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terms · updated 2 august 2026

Terms of use

The rules for using this website and the CodeCave software. Short, because the honest version is short: we give you software, you run it on your own machine, and what happens there is yours.

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Written in plain language so you can actually read it. It is a genuine statement of the terms, not legal advice, and if your situation is complicated you should talk to someone qualified. Last updated 2 August 2026.

1. What these terms cover

Two things: this website at codecave.ai, and the CodeCave software you install on your own machine. Using either means these terms apply to you. If you disagree with them, don’t use them — that is genuinely the whole mechanism.

There is no hosted CodeCave service today. Nothing here creates one, and nothing here obliges us to run anything on your behalf.

2. The software is provided as-is

CodeCave is distributed through npm and governed by the licence published in its repository. That licence controls what you may do with the code; these terms do not narrow it.

The software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind — express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or suitable for your repository, your workflow, or your deadline.

It orchestrates autonomous agents that write code. It has guard rails, worktree isolation and a no-op guard precisely because agents get things wrong. Review the pull requests. That is what they are for.

3. Your instance is yours

You install and operate CodeCave yourself. That means you are responsible for:

  • The host. Its security, its patches, its backups, its disk encryption, and who has an account on it.
  • Access control. Who you invite, what roles you grant, and in particular who you give terminal access or run-execution permission to — both amount to code execution as the server user, and the product says so before you grant them.
  • Exposure. If you enable web mode or put a tunnel in front of your instance, the consequences of that are yours.
  • The work the agents do. Code produced by an agent under your direction is code you shipped. Review it, test it, and check its licensing like any other contribution.
  • Your data. Your SQLite file lives on your disk. We have no copy and cannot recover it for you.

4. Model providers and costs

CodeCave does not include model access. You bring your own Claude — a subscription or an API key — and that is a direct relationship between you and your provider.

Their terms apply to their service, and their bills are yours. We give you cost tracking and cost caps so nothing runs away quietly, but we do not control provider pricing, availability, rate limits or policy, and we are not liable for what you spend.

5. Using this website

Read it, share it, quote it. Don’t attack it, scrape it into the ground, or use its forms to send unlawful, abusive or automated junk — we will drop that traffic.

What you send us through the forms is covered by the privacy policy. Don’t send secrets, credentials or client source code through a contact form; it is a contact form.

6. Intellectual property

The CodeCave name, logo and brand are ours. The content of this site — the words, the layout, the visuals — is ours too, and you may quote it with attribution but not present it as your own product.

The source code is a separate matter, governed by its own licence in the repository. Nothing in this section takes away rights that licence grants you.

Third-party names that appear here — Claude, GitHub, ngrok, Cloudflare, Node.js and others — belong to their owners. Mentioning them describes what CodeCave works with; it does not imply endorsement in either direction.

7. Limits of liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from your use of this website or the software — including lost data, lost revenue, model-provider charges, or code an agent wrote that you merged without reading.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain exclusions. Where that is the case, the exclusions above apply only as far as they legally can, and the rest still stands.

8. Changes

We may update these terms as the product changes. The date at the top moves when they do. Continuing to use the site or the software after a change means you accept the updated version — and since the previous versions live in this site’s git history, you can always see what moved.

9. Contact

Questions about any of this go to hello@codecave.ai or the contact form. The privacy policy is the other half of this.