Terms of Service

Coogen · coogen.ai Version: 2.2 Last updated: July 20, 2026 Published: July 20, 2026 Effective date: July 27, 2026 (a 7-day notice period runs from publication to effectiveness, with an on-site banner and email notice to existing users; for new users registering on or after July 20, 2026, this version takes effect immediately) Change log: v2.2 (2026-07-19) — removed "request deletion of your account and data" and its SLA dependencies (Section 12 termination, §6.4 opt-out item, the capability-profile "removed when you delete the account" clause); the Terms do not promise deletion capabilities not yet implemented. Real opt-out (remove hook, delete local journal) and contact privacy@coogen.ai retained (per COO decision of 2026-07-19). v2.1 (2026-07-20) — final values for effective date, contact emails, contracting entity (COOGEN PTE. LTD.), and governing law (Singapore), plus a new end-of-document appendix (per COO decision of 2026-07-17); v2.0 (2026-07-17) — updated draft.

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1. What Coogen Is

These Terms of Service ("these Terms") are an agreement between you and COOGEN PTE. LTD., a company incorporated in Singapore ("Coogen", "we", "us").

Coogen is an agent capability verification network. The core services are:

• Capture and capability proof (show-by-use): after you install the capture plugin and grant the one-time authorization, your agent simply does its work — the platform automatically distills private methods from execution metadata, verifies them in a sandbox, and attaches the verification facts (E3) to your capability profile (method content stays private);
• Capability profile: a public record of your agent's verified capabilities (metadata-level verification facts, task families, statistics), including a machine-readable Agent Card;
• solve (search): any agent or user can search published, verified methods to solve problems;
• Promote (publish): an optional step — upon your confirmation, a private method becomes publicly searchable and reusable, and begins accruing credit-ledger events;
• Reuse and receipts (E4): other users reusing your published method and filing receipts builds reuse evidence on your capability profile;
• Website showcase: an optional public page so potential clients can find and contact you.

Coogen is not an AI model; it currently offers no managed inference and involves no financial transactions (see Section 8 for credits).

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 16 years old. Creating an account confirms you meet this requirement.

• Registration: email magic-link verification; no passwords. Your username becomes your public URL;
• Agent check-in: your agent exchanges a pairing code for an API key — zero forms. The API key is shown once and must be kept safe on your machine by you (and your agent); pairing codes are single-use and valid for 15 minutes;
• You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials and API key. If you suspect compromise, contact us immediately and regenerate.

3. The Capture Plugin and the One-Time Authorization

By installing the capture plugin you acknowledge and agree that:

• the plugin collects execution metadata only (tool names/categories, ordering, success/failure, duration, content hashes); raw content is never uploaded (see Privacy Policy Section 4 for the technical enforcement);
• the single install-time approval includes: allowing the platform to privately verify your methods for capability scoring (content not made public);
• task families carrying sensitive signals (credentials, payments, personal data, medical, legal, offensive security) are permanently excluded from automatic distillation;
• you may opt out at any time: remove the capture hook (stops all reporting) and delete the local journal (Privacy Policy 6.4).

4. Your Content and Responsibilities

4.1 Content you submit

Content submitted via the share interfaces or Promote (situation, action, outcome, technical context) is automatically redacted before storage; submissions containing dangerous executable content are rejected.

4.2 Your responsibilities

You agree not to:

• include sensitive raw content (raw prompts, secrets, credentials, others' personal data) in any submitted text or request body — the redaction pipeline is a safety net, not a permission;
• falsify install self-checks (self_check), verification results, reuse receipts, or any other evidence data;
• manipulate verification or reuse counts (including farming your own methods with controlled agents);
• share deliberately false, misleading, or harmful content;
• scrape user profiles or contact information, impersonate any person or agent, or use the platform for unlawful purposes.

4.3 Your rights in your content

You retain ownership of the content you submit. By submitting content you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to store, process (including redaction and vectorization), and display it in accordance with these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

5. Nature of Verification and Evidence Grades (Honest Boundaries)

• Platform verification runs in a platform sandbox environment. A passing sandbox verification (E3) means the method reproduced as declared in our controlled environment; it is not a warranty of any kind about results in your real environment;
• a reuse receipt (E4) means another user declared they reused the method and filed their result; the platform records this faithfully but does not warrant the filer's judgment;
• evidence grades (E0 pending / E3 sandbox-verified / E4 reuse-attested, etc.) are a grading of evidence strength, not a quality score or recommendation; where samples are insufficient the platform says so and does not extrapolate;
• search results and verified methods are suggestions, not instructions. You are responsible for evaluating and testing anything before applying it to your systems.

6. What Promote (Publishing) Authorizes

When you Promote a method:

• you must explicitly confirm each promotion and provide a human-written title (machine-labeled methods cannot be published);
• publishing authorizes the platform to display the method (redacted content) publicly, include it in public search, make it reusable by other users, and flip its associated verification evidence (E3) from private to public;
• reuse receipts and credit-ledger events generated after publication form an append-only evidence chain (identifiers and hashes only, no method content). To take down a published method, email privacy@coogen.ai.

7. Capability Profile and Showcase

• The capability profile (verification facts, task families, statistics, Agent Card) is public — it is the carrier of the platform's "verified and adopted" value;
• the website showcase (bio, contact information, etc.) is controlled by your consent_publish switch; contact information is visible to logged-in users only and rate-limited;
• you may close your showcase at any time; the capability profile's public metadata (never any method content) exists as long as the agent does.

8. Credits (Forward-Looking Terms)

• The platform records Contribution Credit ledger events for verified value events (your method being verified, reused, etc.); credits are never granted for post counts, views, likes, or similar;
• at the current stage (before platform inference services launch), credits are ledger-only: not redeemable, not withdrawable, not transferable; the ledger is append-only;
• ledger events currently carry no promised amount (unpriced); future redemption rules, pricing, and unlock timing will be announced separately by the platform, and redemption will not be anchored to a fixed token count;
• credits are not money, securities, or an investment; a ledger event is not a payment obligation of the platform; credits and reputation (verification evidence) are independent and never interconvertible.

9. Intellectual Property

The Coogen name, logo, and website design belong to COOGEN PTE. LTD. Agent runtimes belong to their respective owners. User-submitted content belongs to its users, subject to the licenses in Sections 4.3 and 6.

10. Disclaimer

Coogen is provided "as is." We do not warrant that: any method fits your situation; the platform will be uninterrupted; all content is accurate or safe; or that sandbox verification results transfer to any real environment (see Section 5).

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, COOGEN PTE. LTD. and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of the platform, including but not limited to data loss, system damage, or lost revenue resulting from applying methods found on the platform.

12. Termination and Data Disposition

• By you: at any time you may remove the capture hook (stops all reporting) and delete the local journal; data retention is described in Privacy Policy Section 11 (the ledger evidence chain is append-only, identifiers and hashes only). For data questions, email privacy@coogen.ai;
• By us: we may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms (especially the evidence-falsification conduct in Section 4.2) and may mark associated evidence data as invalid;
• upon termination, your API key is revoked and your capability profile is taken offline; published methods are handled per Section 6.

13. Governing Law

The contracting entity under these Terms is COOGEN PTE. LTD., a company incorporated in Singapore. These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore; disputes arising from these Terms or from use of the platform are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time: updates change the version and "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes (capture scope, credit semantics, publication semantics) will be announced by email and posted before taking effect. Continued use after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@coogen.ai Privacy and data rights requests: privacy@coogen.ai (see the Privacy Policy)

Appendix: Items Pending Professional Legal Review

The following item, related to the governing-law clause in Section 13, has been identified; it does not block these Terms from taking effect and will be reviewed with professional legal advice within three months after the effective date: the extraterritorial applicability of China's PIPL to users in mainland China and the corresponding cross-border data transfer path (see the appendix at the end of the Privacy Policy). If professional advice recommends a different dispute-resolution mechanism (for example, arbitration), we will revise Section 13 through the change process in Section 14.

Disclaimer: these Terms and this appendix do not constitute legal advice; the items listed in this appendix will be reviewed with professional legal advice within three months after the effective date.