Terms of Service

1. What Shellbook Is

Shellbook is a terminal-native social network for people coding with agents such as Codex and Claude Code. It adds rooms, direct messages, friends, invite links, presence, and profile cards around your coding workflow.

Shellbook is independent software. Shellbook is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or controlled by OpenAI, Anthropic, Codex, Claude Code, or any other third-party coding agent provider.

2. Eligibility

You must be old enough under the laws of the country or region where you live to use an online social service and agree to these Terms. If local law requires parental or guardian consent, you may use Shellbook only with that consent.

You may not use Shellbook if you are barred from using the service under applicable law or if we previously suspended your account for abuse.

3. Accounts And Security

You claim a username and set a password to create an account. Keep your password secure. You are responsible for activity that happens through your account unless the activity happened after you reported unauthorized access and we had a reasonable chance to act.

Usernames are first-come, first-served, but we may reclaim or change usernames that impersonate others, violate rights, mislead users, squat on names, or create operational or safety problems.

4. Your Content

You keep ownership of the messages, profile text, screenshots, and other content you submit to Shellbook. By submitting content, you give Shellbook a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, moderate, and process that content only as needed to operate, protect, improve, and promote Shellbook.

Do not post secrets, credentials, private repository contents, private customer data, confidential work material, or anything you do not have the right to share.

5. Public And Private Areas

Public rooms, public profile cards, usernames, and public stats may be visible to other users or visitors. Friend-visible presence and friend stats may be visible to people you connect with. Direct messages are intended for the participants in that conversation.

Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Shellbook may access messages and metadata when needed to operate the service, investigate abuse, comply with law, debug incidents, or protect users.

6. Coding Metrics And Presence

Shellbook may show coding-related stats such as coding time, current state, active agent sessions, longest session, commits, daily streaks, and last prompted time. Some metrics are inferred from your local Shellbook client, repository metadata, or agent hooks.

Metrics are social signals, not audited productivity records. They may be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, duplicated, or changed as the product evolves.

7. Community Rules

Use Shellbook to talk with other builders, coordinate rooms, send DMs, share invites, and make coding with agents less lonely.

Do not harass, threaten, dox, impersonate, spam, exploit, scrape aggressively, attack the service, fake metrics, create fake accounts, share malware, violate law, violate intellectual property rights, or use Shellbook to expose someone else’s private information.

8. Moderation And Enforcement

We may remove content, limit reach, revoke invites, hide rooms, block usernames, suspend accounts, or preserve information when we believe it is necessary to protect users, Shellbook, or the public.

We may review reports and automated signals, but we do not promise to monitor every room, direct message, profile, invite, or metric.

9. Software, Availability, And Changes

Shellbook is early software. Features, APIs, client versions, shortcuts, metrics, rooms, storage, pricing, and availability may change. We may stop supporting older clients when they are incompatible, unsafe, or expensive to maintain.

We may modify, pause, or discontinue part or all of Shellbook at any time. We will try to avoid unnecessary disruption, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service.

10. Third-Party Services

Shellbook depends on third-party infrastructure and may link to external services such as Supabase, hosting providers, GitHub, X/Twitter share links, terminal applications, package managers, Codex, and Claude Code.

Third-party services have their own terms and privacy practices. Shellbook is not responsible for third-party services, agent output, terminal behavior, package manager availability, or content outside Shellbook.

11. Privacy

The Shellbook Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how it is shared, and the choices you have. By using Shellbook, you also agree to the Privacy Policy.

12. Termination

You may stop using Shellbook at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create risk, cause legal exposure, abuse the service, or repeatedly create operational problems.

After termination, provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including ownership, licenses needed for retained content, disclaimers, limits of liability, and dispute terms.

13. Disclaimers

Shellbook is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, security, and reliability.

You are responsible for your code, repositories, credentials, terminals, machines, agent sessions, and decisions. Do not rely on Shellbook as a backup, security system, compliance system, or source of truth for work records.

14. Limits Of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Shellbook and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, service interruption, security incidents, or user content.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Shellbook’s total liability for any claim related to the service will be limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid Shellbook in the 12 months before the claim.

15. Indemnity

If you use Shellbook on behalf of a company or project, or if your content or conduct creates a claim against Shellbook, you agree to defend and indemnify Shellbook and its operators from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses arising from your use, content, or violation of these Terms.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by California law, excluding conflict-of-law rules, unless the law where you live requires otherwise. Courts located in California will have exclusive jurisdiction where permitted by law.

17. Changes To These Terms

We may update these Terms as Shellbook changes. If changes are material, we will try to provide reasonable notice through the website, client, or service. Continuing to use Shellbook after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Contact

Questions, legal notices, abuse reports, and account requests can be sent to support@shellbook.co.