Terms of service

Terms of service

Last updated 29 May 2026

Lab is a desktop tool built by one person and provided as-is. It runs AI agents that read, write, and execute on your machine and in your repositories. You direct them, you review their work, and you're responsible for what you ship. Don't redistribute the app, don't hold us liable if something breaks, and don't claim an affiliation you don't have.

Who and what

By using the Lab desktop application, this website, or any Patreon-connected feature (the "Service"), you agree to these terms. The Service is run by an individual developer publishing under the itsloopyo handle. Contact: Bluesky @itsloopyo, or legal@decoupled.cam.

Lab is a desktop workbench for "Directed Coding": it helps you run AI coding agents (such as Claude Code and Codex) across the software repositories you own, and review, commit, and push the work they produce. It orchestrates tools and agents that you install and configure. Lab is independent and unofficial: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Patreon, or any other company whose products it can drive. All trademarks belong to their owners and are referenced solely to describe what Lab works with.

Licence to use Lab

Subject to these terms and the End User Licence Agreement, you may install and use Lab on computers you own or control, for your own software development work, whether personal or commercial. You may not resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute Lab itself, or pass off its source or builds as your own. Full licence terms are in the EULA.

Your agents, your repositories, your responsibility

This is the important part. Lab launches autonomous and semi-autonomous agents that can read and modify files, run shell commands, make commits, and push to remotes in the projects you point it at. You are responsible for:

• Reviewing what the agents produce before you commit, push, deploy, or run it.
• The credentials and API access you provide to those agents and to GitHub, and any cost incurred with the AI providers you use.
• Ensuring your use of each agent complies with that provider's own terms, and that you have the right to modify the repositories and run the commands in question.

Lab gives you the console; the direction, the review, and the decision to ship are yours.

Third-party agents and services

The AI agents and developer tools Lab drives are published by their own vendors under their own licences and terms, and your use of them, including any data sent to them and any fees they charge, is governed by those terms, not these. Lab makes no warranty about any specific agent, model, or its output.

Patreon and updates

Access to Lab and its automatic updates is provided to active supporters on Patreon. If you link a Patreon account, the Service checks your supporter status with Patreon and unlocks downloads and updates while your pledge is active. Billing is between you and Patreon; refunds go to them. If your pledge lapses, the version of Lab you already have keeps working; you simply stop receiving new updates. Supporter scope and tiers can change at any time.

No warranty, limited liability

The Service is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. No promise is made that it will work, keep working, be free of defects, or be compatible with any particular agent, model, operating system, or repository.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages (including lost or corrupted code, unwanted commits or pushes, deleted files, leaked secrets, third-party service costs, or downtime) arising from your use of the Service or the actions of any agent you run through it. Total aggregate liability for any claim will not exceed £50. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or anything else that cannot be excluded by law. Your statutory rights as a consumer under UK law are unaffected.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Scotland, and the Scottish courts have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident in another part of the United Kingdom, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK in which you reside.

Changes

These terms may change. The "last updated" date above will move when they do.