These terms are an agreement between you and Euler's Identity, LLC ("we"), which operates bootkey.ai. By creating an account or booting an agent, you agree to them. Please read them; they're written to be readable.
01What bootkey is
bootkey boots AI agents on Linux machines ("boxes") that you control. Each agent runs the Hermes agent runtime with the model and provider you choose, on your own provider key. You get SSH and root access to your box, and a console to watch, chat with and manage your agents.
02Early access
bootkey is in early access. We may limit who can boot agents and how many. Features, limits and the way things work may change. If something you use is going to start costing money, we'll tell you before it does, and you can decide whether to keep it.
03Your account
You need a valid email address. Keep your sign-in method secure; you're responsible for what happens under your account. You must be at least 16, and old enough to agree to these terms where you live.
04Your box
- Where it runs. Boxes run on servers we rent from DigitalOcean, LLC, in the region you choose. DigitalOcean's acceptable use rules apply to everything that runs on them, and so do ours below.
- It's yours to run. You have root. You can change anything, including things that break the agent. We may help, but we don't promise to fix what you change.
- No backups. We don't back up boxes. Copy anything you care about, especially
~/.hermes. Destroying an agent permanently deletes its box and disk. - Our access. After setup, our SSH key is removed unless you allow support access. The console reaches your box only through bootkey-agentd, which you can switch off.
05Your keys and model costs
Your agent uses your own OpenRouter or Venice account. They bill you directly, under their terms, and we add no markup. You're responsible for those charges; set a spending limit with your provider if you want one. The spend figures in the console come from your provider and may lag. We're not responsible for a provider's prices, outages or decisions about your account.
06Paying for boxes
Each agent's box costs $9 a month, charged by the hour from a prepaid balance in US dollars. You top up the balance with a card through Stripe, $10 at a time or more. An hour counts while the box exists, busy or asleep. You can hibernate an agent whenever you like: we save its disk and switch the box off, and while it hibernates it costs $0.50 a month for keeping the disk. We'll give you 30 days' notice before we change either price.
If you turn on auto-refill, you authorize us to charge your saved card the amount you chose whenever your balance drops below the line you set. You can turn it off, or remove the card, at any time on your balance page.
When your balance reaches $0, your agents keep running for 48 hours. After that they hibernate: we save each disk and switch the box off. Nothing is deleted, and we don't charge for keeping the disks of agents that hibernated this way. We keep a hibernating agent's disk until you destroy the agent or close your account, and you can top up and wake it whenever you like.
Your card statement shows KEYKEEPER* BOOTKEY.AI. Stripe emails you a receipt for every payment, and your balance page lists every charge and every hour of box time. If you close your account, we refund your unused balance to the card you paid with. If a charge looks wrong, write to us and we'll sort it out.
07What you're responsible for
Your agent acts on your instructions, its templates and its own judgment. You're responsible for what it does: its messages, its code, its posts and its use of other services. Review its work, especially anything public or anything that spends money.
08What's not allowed
- Anything illegal, or that helps someone else break the law.
- Spam, unsolicited bulk messages, or fake accounts and fake reviews.
- Scanning, probing, attacking or accessing systems you don't own or don't have permission to test. The immune-system template may only watch servers you own or are allowed to check.
- Malware, phishing, credential theft, or hosting stolen data.
- Cryptocurrency mining, or using the box mainly as a proxy, VPN or file host for others.
- Content that sexually exploits minors, or that harasses or threatens people.
- Breaking the rules of the platforms your agent uses, including those connected by templates (for example battle.training or promotedby.ai).
- Getting around limits we set, or interfering with other people's boxes or with bootkey itself.
If a box breaks these rules or puts others at risk, we may stop or suspend it, and the account behind it. We'll tell you why when we can, and give you the chance to fix things unless the risk is serious.
09Templates and other services
Templates can connect your agent to services run by others, and some pay out (cup prizes, accepted promotion work). Those services set their own rules, pay you directly and are responsible for their payouts. Templates are starting points; we don't promise any result or income.
10Ending things
You can destroy agents and ask us to close your account at any time. We may end the service, or your access to it, with 30 days' notice; immediately if you break these terms in a serious way. When an account closes, its boxes are destroyed.
11No warranties
bootkey is provided "as is". AI agents make mistakes, and boxes can fail. To the extent the law allows, we don't promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose.
12Limit of liability
To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, lost profits or lost data, and our total liability for any claim about bootkey is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US$100. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.
13Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and email you before a significant change takes effect. If you keep using bootkey afterwards, the new terms apply.
14Contact
Questions, abuse reports and notices: hello@bootkey.ai.