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Yardmaster Guide

Terms of Service

The terms for using Yardmaster.

Effective

1. Who we are#

Yardmaster (the "App") is a desktop application published and operated by Bold Arrow Group, LLC ("the Company," "we," "us," "our"), a North Carolina limited liability company located at 29 Duncan Lane, Arden, NC 28704.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Yardmaster, including the desktop application; phone and browser access to the App; the Share pages we host for content you publish; our websites, including the help site and download page; our hosted backend services; and related services (together, the "Services"). Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the Services, you agree to these Terms. The App also asks you to agree on its agreement screen, by pressing I Agree & Continue. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

If you only view a Share someone published, you do not need an account. These Terms apply to your use of the Share page as far as the law allows, and the Privacy Policy explains what we collect when you view a Share.

If you use the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organization.

2. What Yardmaster is (and is not)#

Yardmaster is a desktop application that helps you run, organize, and manage AI coding agents and sessions (such as Claude Code) on your own computer and against your own code and projects. It orchestrates agent sessions, stores your session history locally, and provides productivity features, including Shares you can publish to the web.

Yardmaster is a tool, not the agent. The AI agents you run are provided by third parties (for example, Anthropic's Claude). Yardmaster launches and manages those agent processes and, in some cases, sends requests to third-party AI providers on your behalf, using your own accounts and keys with those providers.

You are responsible for what your agents do (the code they produce, the commands they run, and the changes they make to your systems and data), subject to Section 12 (which allocates responsibility for defects in our own software to us). See Sections 8, 12, and 13.

3. Availability: United States only#

The Services are offered only to users located in the United States. You represent that you are located in, and will use the Services from, the United States. We do not target or knowingly offer the Services to consumers in the EU, UK, or other regions at this time; availability may expand in the future with region-specific terms.

4. Eligibility and accounts#

  • You must be at least 18 years old. By creating an account, you confirm that you are.

  • An account is required to use the App. You sign in with Google or GitHub. You are responsible for your credentials and all activity under your account, and must notify us of any unauthorized use.

  • You agree to provide accurate information and keep it current.

5. Price#

The Services are free today, and before any paid plan launches we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy and give you notice, so you will never be charged unless you first agree to pay.

6. Your own AI accounts and keys, and spending limits#

  • Usage under your own AI provider account or API key is billed to you directly by that provider under that provider's terms. You are solely responsible for all charges incurred under your account or key, including charges resulting from automated, agentic, scheduled, or looping usage, and for complying with that provider's terms.

  • We strongly recommend you set a spending limit on your own provider account. Any liability of the Company relating to such charges is in all cases governed by and subject to the disclaimers and limits in Sections 12 and 13.

  • Spending limits (your key). The App provides spending limits, on by default, that you can view and adjust in Settings, to help stop an unattended loop or malfunction from running up unbounded charges under your own key. These limits apply to sessions billed to your own key; sessions on a subscription sign-in (such as a Claude plan) are not covered by them.

  • How the limits work. Some daily limits on built-in features are fixed and cannot be changed. The limits may change over time. You are responsible for keeping the adjustable limits at a level you are comfortable with, and if you turn a limit off it no longer applies. Spending limits are a safety net, not a guarantee: a request already under way can finish and cost more than the limit.

  • Keys you provide are stored locally and encrypted on your device where your operating system supports it (otherwise as plain text, with a warning), and used only to make the requests you direct (see the Privacy Policy).

7. License to use the App#

Subject to these Terms, the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Yardmaster on devices you own or control, for personal or internal business use.

You may not: copy, modify, or make derivative works except as permitted by applicable open-source licenses or by us in writing; reverse engineer except where that restriction is prohibited by law; rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the App or access to the Services; remove proprietary notices; or use the Services to build a competing product or to circumvent usage limits or spending limits.

The App includes third-party and open-source components licensed under their own terms, which govern those components.

8. Your responsibilities and your content#

  • Your projects, code, prompts, and outputs are yours ("Your Content"). We do not claim ownership of them and do not use them to train our own models.

  • You are responsible for Your Content and for the actions of the agents you run: code they write, commands they execute, files they modify or delete, credentials they use, and external services they call. AI agents can make mistakes and take destructive actions; you must supervise them, keep backups, and use appropriate safeguards.

  • You represent you have the rights necessary to submit Your Content to the Services and to any third-party AI providers used to process it.

  • The license you give us. You grant the Company a limited license to process, store, and host Your Content only as necessary to provide the Services you use: for example, sending a request you start to an AI provider, hosting a Share you publish and showing it to the people you allow, storing knowledge facts if you turn on knowledge capture, storing cloud backup and sync files if you turn them on, and handling feedback and problem reports you send.

  • How long that license lasts. It lasts only as long as we need it for that purpose (for a Share, while it stays published) and ends when the content is deleted from our services, except for copies kept for the periods described in the Privacy Policy.

  • Shares you publish. You choose who can open a Share (anyone with the link, anyone with a password, or named Google domains or email addresses) and whether readers can comment or ask questions. You are responsible for what you publish and for the access you choose. If you allow reader questions, they are answered by an AI model on your own AI account, at your cost.

9. Acceptable use#

You agree not to use the Services to: violate law or infringe others' rights; create, run, or distribute malware or perform unauthorized access or attacks; process data or direct agents at systems, repositories, or accounts you are not authorized to access; publish Shares that are unlawful or infringe others' rights; abuse any free feature or limit (including automating sign-ups); or interfere with or overload the Services or the providers they rely on.

Provider usage policies flow down. When you use an AI provider through the App, you must also comply with that provider's usage and acceptable-use policies (for example, Anthropic's Usage Policy), as updated. Violating a provider policy is grounds for suspension.

We may investigate suspected violations and suspend or terminate access for conduct we reasonably believe violates these Terms or harms the Company, other users, or third parties.

10. Export controls and sanctions#

You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, any US-embargoed or sanctioned jurisdiction; that you are not on any US government restricted-party list (including OFAC's SDN list or the BIS denied or entity lists); and that you will not use or export the Services in violation of US export-control or sanctions laws. Breach is grounds for immediate termination.

We respect copyright. If you believe content on our hosted services (for example, a published Share or its comments) infringes your copyright, send a notice to our copyright agent by email at legal@yardmaster.io, or by mail to Copyright Agent, Bold Arrow Group, LLC, 29 Duncan Lane, Arden, NC 28704. Your notice should include:

  • your physical or electronic signature;

  • the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;

  • the content you believe infringes it, and where it is (for example, the Share's link);

  • your name, mailing address, phone number and email address;

  • a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

  • a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act for the owner.

When a notice includes this information, we will review it and may remove or disable the content. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, or that you have permission to use it, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We may end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

12. Disclaimers#

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, timely, or error-free, that AI-generated output will be accurate, reliable, or fit for any purpose, or that defects will be corrected.

AI OUTPUT AND AGENT ACTIONS ARE INHERENTLY UNPREDICTABLE. You are solely responsible for reviewing, testing, and validating any code, commands, or output before relying on them, and for maintaining backups.

Distinction between AI behavior and our software. The disclaimers above concerning AI and agent output do not purport to disclaim the Company's responsibility for defects in the Company's own software (for example orchestration, spending limits, credential storage, and Share hosting). Our responsibility for the latter is addressed, and limited, in Section 13, subject to its carve-outs.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability#

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

  • NEITHER PARTY-PROTECTIVE LIMIT BELOW APPLIES TO: (a) fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct; (b) death or personal injury caused by negligence; (c) a party's indemnification obligations; or (d) any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law. These carve-outs are stated first so that, if a limit below is held unenforceable as to a carved-out claim, the remainder of this Section still stands.

  • SUBJECT TO THE CARVE-OUTS ABOVE, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY OR ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, UNDER ANY THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

  • SUBJECT TO THE CARVE-OUTS ABOVE, THE COMPANY'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THE COMPANY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD 100.

In plain words: because the Services are free today, you have paid us nothing, so outside the carve-outs above the most the Company will owe you for all claims together is USD 100.

14. Indemnification#

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its owners, employees, and suppliers from third-party claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: (a) Your Content; (b) your use of the Services, including the actions of agents you run and Shares you publish; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right, except to the extent caused by the Company's own breach, negligence, or willful misconduct.

If a claim is covered, we will promptly notify you of it, allow you to control the defense with counsel of reasonable choice, and reasonably cooperate; you may not settle a claim in a way that imposes obligations on the Company without its consent.

15. Suspension and termination#

  • By you: stop using the Services and delete your account in the App's Settings.

  • By us: we may suspend or terminate access, with or without notice, for a violation of these Terms, as required by law, or to protect the Services, users, or third parties; and we may discontinue the Services or any feature.

  • Effect: your license ends; locally stored data remains on your device until you delete it. Deleting your account does not by itself delete Shares you published, knowledge-capture facts, or cloud backup and sync files; you can delete your Shares and backup in the App and ask us to delete the rest, as the Privacy Policy (Section 9) explains.

  • What continues. Sections 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 17 survive the end of these Terms.

16. Beta and changing features#

Some features may be offered on a beta, preview, or "in development" basis, may change or be removed at any time, are provided "as is," and are excluded from any service commitments. Some features may be shown as "not available yet" until they are ready (for example, connecting Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive, which is waiting for Google's approval).

17. Governing law and dispute resolution#

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Binding arbitration; class-action waiver (with opt-out). Except for claims that may be brought in small-claims court and requests for injunctive relief to protect intellectual property, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, seated in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), North Carolina.

If an in-person hearing is needed, it will take place in the county where you live, unless you and the Company agree otherwise. You and the Company waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class, collective, or representative action.

Arbitration fees. You will never pay more in arbitration filing fees than you would pay to file a claim in court. For a claim you bring as a consumer, the Company will pay the rest of the AAA filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees, as the AAA Consumer Rules require, and will pay those fees for any non-frivolous consumer claim even where the rules do not require it.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration and class-waiver section by sending written notice to legal@yardmaster.io within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Include your name, the email address of your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not change any other part of these Terms.

If you opt out, disputes proceed in the state or federal courts located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to whose exclusive jurisdiction and venue the parties consent. If we change this Section 17, the change will not apply to a dispute you told us about before the change took effect.

18. Miscellaneous#

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the Company about the Services. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a part of these Terms is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale. Neither party is responsible for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

Changes to these Terms. When we change these Terms, we change the "Last updated" date above. For a material change, we will also give you reasonable notice in the App before it takes effect, for example by showing the agreement screen again. If you keep using the Services after a change takes effect, the updated Terms apply. If you do not agree with a change, stop using the Services and delete your account.

19. Contact#

Questions: legal@yardmaster.io, Bold Arrow Group, LLC, 29 Duncan Lane, Arden, NC 28704.