Kit beta terms

1. What you are installing

Kit is beta software: a memory-backed AI collaborator that runs as a private set of programs on your own Mac. Beta means it is genuinely useful and genuinely unfinished; things will occasionally break, change, or ask for patience. It is offered by Peter John Koen, care of Phoenix Business Advisory, 4th Floor, Sunclare Building, 21 Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town, 7708, which these terms call the owner of Kit, reachable at kit@kit-project.com.

You need to be 18 or older to use Kit.

2. Your licence to use it

You get a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to run the Kit app on your own Macs for your own use during the beta. Please don't redistribute the app or resell it; send people to kit-project.com instead. Everything your Kit stores belongs to you, not us; the Kit software, name, and branding remain ours. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them to improve Kit without owing you anything for them; we never publish your name with them unless you say we may.

3. The software is ours; your memories are yours

Kit ships in compiled form: the app carries Kit's programs as compiled code, not their source, and its prompts are packed rather than kept as text files. What Kit installs and what leaves your Mac are still set out in full, on the install page and in section 4. The code, the prompts, and the way Kit thinks and dreams remain the property of the owner of Kit. You may not copy them, sell them, decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer them (except as far as the law allows that whatever these terms say), build competing products from them, or use them to train, fine-tune or evaluate AI systems. Everything your Kit remembers is yours alone, and the export exists so that never depends on us.

4. Where your data lives, and exactly what leaves your Mac

Your Kit's memory lives in a database on your Mac. We run no server that holds your memories. These are the things that can leave your Mac, and this list is intended to be complete:

• What Kit sends to a model. To think, Kit sends a prompt to a model, and a prompt often includes some of your memories. Where it goes depends on the model you use (why Kit needs a model, and what it does with one):
  • Kit's model (the default). Prompts, and the memories included in them, pass through Kit's gateway, a server run for Kit and hosted by Hetzner in Ashburn, Virginia, in the United States. The gateway passes them on to the model provider that does the job, today OpenAI or Anthropic, and the answer comes back the same way. The gateway does not keep the content of prompts or answers. It keeps a usage record for your key (when, which job, how many tokens, what it cost) for up to 90 days, so it can apply the monthly allowance. Kit does not use your prompts, answers or memories to train any model, and the providers' own terms for this kind of use say they do not either. To get Kit's model you give us your email address; we use it to send the sign-in link, to tie the allowance to you, and, rarely, for notices about the beta.
    • Which model does which job. Talking (your chats with Kit, and sorting mail you receive): Claude Sonnet 5.5, from Anthropic. Filing (turning conversations, mail and files into memories, summaries of people and places, and most of the nightly tidy-up): GPT-6 Luna, from OpenAI. Checking and reflecting (second opinions on what filing wrote, and Kit's own notes): Claude Haiku 5.5, from Anthropic. If one is unavailable, the gateway tries a backup, which may come from the other company (GPT-5.6 Luna or GPT-5 nano from OpenAI, or Claude Haiku 5.5). Searching your memories and recognising names run on your Mac and use no cloud model. If the model behind a job changes, this list changes first.
    • What the providers read, and keep. They read the actual words a job needs, names and messages included; Kit does not replace names with codes first. Both use it only to answer, never to train, and normally delete it within 30 days. Their terms: Anthropic's commercial terms (with its data processing addendum), and OpenAI's services agreement (with its data processing addendum).
    • Before any of it is sent, setup asks you to agree, on the page where you choose Kit's model. Not agreeing is simple: switch Kit's model off and bring your own.
  • Your own key. Prompts go straight from your Mac to the provider you chose, under your own account, and that provider's terms apply, not ours. Nothing passes through Kit's servers.
  • A model on your Mac (Ollama or LM Studio). Nothing leaves.
• The allowance. Kit's model is sponsored up to $5 a month for each Mac, chat included. This is an introductory offer for early beta testers, not a lasting part of Kit: it won't last forever, and it may be changed or withdrawn at any time. At the limit Kit's model stops until the next month starts; Kit tells you. You can bring your own model at any time, in Settings, AI models: your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, or a model on your Mac through Ollama or LM Studio. The beta as a whole also has a monthly budget, and if it is reached, Kit's model pauses for everyone and new sign-ups wait. We may change or end the sponsored allowance, and will say so on this page first.
• Welcome email. If you give us your email for Kit's model, the app asks kit-project.com to send you one welcome email, with your name, your Kit's name and which tools it connected. From Kit 0.2.443, turning health reports off stops it too.
• Feedback you send. If you use "Send us feedback" in the app, your message, the contact details you give, your Kit's version and any files you attach go by email to the Kit team. Nothing is sent unless you choose to send it.
• Update checks. The app checks kit-project.com for new versions. This carries version information, not memory content.
• Services you connect yourself. If you turn on mail, Telegram or another connection, Kit talks to that service directly, under your account, to do what you asked. Nothing from it passes through Kit's servers.
• Health reports, on by default. Your Kit sends the Kit team a short health report once a day, and again straight away when an update fails or something crashes. This is on for everyone in the beta, new installs included. Why: it is how we find and fix problems in the beta, often before you notice them. How to turn it off: switch off "Share health reports with the Kit team" in Settings, Privacy, at any time, and back on whenever you like; setting KIT_TELEMETRY=0 in your Kit's settings file also holds them off. A report contains exactly this, and nothing else:
  • your name, the email address you set Kit up with and your Kit's name, so we know whose Kit a report came from and can get in touch when it needs help; a random install id that your Kit makes for itself, so one install stays one record; and which AI tools it is connected to (their names, such as Claude Code);
  • which version of the app you installed, which version is actually running, whether the two disagree, which runtime it is on, and how much free space is left on the disk it installs to, in whole gigabytes;
  • for each of its background services: its name, whether it is up, and how many times it has restarted (states and restart counts);
  • its overall health, how many of its own health checks need attention, which checks those are, and for two of them (its model jobs and its imports) which of Kit's own jobs is failing, in what state, and counts of calls or files;
  • two numbers about the nightly dream cycle: how many days since one last finished, and how many attempts have failed in a row. If one step inside a nightly dream fails while the rest carries on, which step, whether it failed or produced nothing, and the type of error, with no error message and no free text, at most ten steps a night;
  • whether you stopped Kit on purpose, and when and how it last stopped;
  • if an update fails, what kind of failure, when, on which version, and the error lines from that update run with sign-in details stripped;
  • if a dream cycle or a background service crashes, when that happened and the crash's own error lines, filtered the same way, including which of its own files and functions the crash passed through (and how many steps were outside its own code), the types of error, the database statement that failed with its values removed, and how far the dream had got. A crash or a failed update also carries roughly how many rows its own tables hold, to two significant figures rather than a running count. That is how big its machinery is, never anything kept in it.
  Never memories, messages, files, or anything you or your Kit work on. Never your IP address either. How long we keep it: your install's whole health record, its latest report and its history, is deleted 90 days after its last report. Ask us at kit@kit-project.com and we delete it sooner.

The website is separate from the app. Public pages on kit-project.com use no analytics, no ad tracking and no tracking cookies.

Signing up for the download. To get Kit you give us your name and email address, and if you like your kind of Mac, the tools you use and what you would use Kit for. We use them to write to you about your sign-up, to send the download link, and, rarely, for notices about the beta. With the sign-up we keep the kind of browser it came from and the country your network address points to, and a one-way hash of that address to stop scripted sign-ups; never the address itself. A sign-up also sends the owner of Kit a short notice with your name and email, and at most what else you put in the form, through the form service Formspree. The download link sets one necessary cookie so this browser is not asked again. Signing up hands out no model key: Kit's model is switched on separately, in the app's setup, and only for the email you signed up with (if you were invited before sign-up existed, the email your invitation went to). To know which sign-up a Mac came from, the app opens kit-project.com once in your browser, which reads that cookie and links the Mac's random install id to your sign-up. We keep your sign-up while the beta runs, and delete it within 90 days of the beta ending or sooner if you ask.

Who handles it for us. The little we hold is handled by a few services, each only to do its part: Vercel runs kit-project.com, Supabase holds the sign-ups, keys and health reports, Resend sends our email, Formspree carries the sign-up notice, and Hetzner hosts Kit's gateway. Several of these are in the United States and Supabase is in Ireland, so what we hold about you may be stored outside your country. We chose services that commit to protecting it, and we share with them nothing beyond what their part needs.

Your rights over what we hold. You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, and object to how we use it, by writing to kit@kit-project.com. We answer within 30 days. If you are not happy with the answer, you can complain to South Africa's Information Regulator, or to the data protection authority where you live.

The app sends nothing beyond the items above. If that ever changes, these terms change first, visibly, with a new version date.

5. Using Kit, and what it can get wrong

• Kit can be wrong. It remembers and reasons with AI models, and they make mistakes: a memory filed under the wrong person, a confident summary that misses something. Check anything that matters before you act on it. Kit is not medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
• You decide what Kit does for you. Kit acts only through connections you turn on, and on what you ask. If you ask it to send, change or delete something, that is your action, and you are responsible for it.
• Be careful with what you let in. Mail and files you connect can contain text written to steer an AI. Kit is built to treat that text as information rather than instructions, but no AI resists it perfectly, so connect only what you are comfortable with Kit reading.
• Other people's information. Your mail and files hold other people's names and messages. Keep what Kit remembers about them to your own personal use.
• The providers' rules. When you use Kit's model, you also agree not to use it for anything Anthropic's usage policy or OpenAI's usage policies forbid. We can switch Kit's model off for a key used that way.

6. If Kit is sold, or its owner winds up

Your memories are on your Mac, so they are not ours to sell, and no sale can reach them. The little we do hold (the name and email address you gave us to sign up or for Kit's model, your key's usage records and the health reports) is deleted if Kit is ever sold or merged, or its owner winds up or goes insolvent. It is never sold, licensed or handed over as an asset, and a buyer gets none of it. If a new owner wants to carry on running Kit's model, you sign up with them afresh, under their terms, if you choose to.

7. Beta expectations, backups included

Treat the beta like a sharp new tool: powerful, improving weekly, and not yet the place for your only copy of anything irreplaceable. Kit includes export; use it. We work hard on durability (your Kit audits its own recall nightly), but during a beta you should assume a bad week is possible.

8. No warranty, limited liability

Please read this section carefully: it limits what you can claim from us. The beta is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent the law allows. To the same extent, our total liability arising from your use of the beta is limited to the amount you paid for it, which during the beta is nothing. This does not cover loss caused by our gross negligence or deliberate wrongdoing, and nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited or takes away rights the consumer law of your country gives you.

9. Ending things

You can stop any time: quit the app and remove the stack; the uninstaller removes what was installed. Your data remains yours before, during, and after; export it whenever you like. We can end beta access if these terms are broken or the beta winds down, in which case your local data still remains yours.

10. Changes

These terms are versioned by date. If a change is material, the app will ask you to agree again before continuing, and Kit runs only on terms you have accepted: until you agree, it stays stopped, and your memories stay on your Mac, untouched. Quiet edits to substance are not a thing we do, on principle and in product.

11. The boring but necessary line

These terms are governed by the laws of South Africa. If you live elsewhere, the consumer protections of your own country still apply to you. If a part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stands.

Questions, or something here that seems unfair? Write to kit@kit-project.com; a human reads it.