Terms and Conditions of Use of HugAI.dev

Last updated: November 12, 2026

1. Identification and Acceptance

HugAI.dev (hereinafter, “HugAI”, “the Platform” or “we”) is a project promoted and managed by Sebastián Larrauri, with legal domicile at Mendoza 764, Córdoba, Argentine Republic.

These Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of the HugAI.dev website, its tools, functionalities, and community participation spaces.

By accessing, browsing, or using the Platform, you accept these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with them, you must refrain from using the corresponding functionalities.

2. What is HugAI

HugAI is a community platform aimed at the discovery, development, and publication of open-source software tools related to artificial intelligence and associated technologies.

The Platform allows you to:

• Explore and use published tools.
• Propose new tools and improvements to existing tools.
• Upvote or downvote initiatives.
• Participate in discussions and comments.
• Report content that breaches these Terms.
• Share tools and initiatives.
• Voluntarily support development through time contributions, when that functionality is enabled.

HugAI is an independent initiative and does not officially represent Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or any other technology provider, unless expressly stated otherwise. References to providers or certifications indicate compatibility or relevance, not an endorsement by those providers.

3. Access and Registration

Browsing, viewing, and using published tools may be carried out without creating an account, unless a particular functionality establishes otherwise.

To participate (vote, comment, report content, or propose initiatives) you need to sign in. HugAI does not use passwords: you can sign in with a code and a link that we send to your email address, or with your GitHub or Google account.

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to create an account.

When you create an account, you agree to:

• Provide truthful and up-to-date information.
• Keep control and security of the email address and the GitHub or Google accounts you use to sign in, and not share sign-in codes or links.
• Choose a username that does not impersonate another person and is not offensive.
• Not use third-party accounts without authorization.
• Notify us if you detect unauthorized access.
• Use the Platform lawfully and responsibly.

You are responsible for the activities carried out from your account, unless there is evidence of unauthorized use not attributable to you.

Accounts whose email address is never verified are deleted automatically after thirty (30) days.

HugAI may suspend or limit accounts when there are reasonable grounds related to breaches of these Terms, security, or abuse of the Platform.

4. Guest Participation

Some actions (such as voting, proposing, and reporting comments, and in the future contributing) are available to people who have not completed an account. Commenting always requires an account with a username.

To perform one of those actions we request an email address and, optionally, a name or alias, and we send a six-digit code to that address. The action is recorded only after you enter the code; if you do not enter it, nothing is recorded. Verifying the code creates a basic account without a username associated with that email, so if you later sign in with the same address, your previous votes and proposals are already yours.

Before sending a code, the site runs an automatic security check (Cloudflare Turnstile). Disposable or temporary email addresses are not accepted. Trying to get around these measures, or using several email addresses to vote more than once on the same initiative, is a breach of these Terms.

The availability of actions for guests may vary depending on the configuration of each functionality.

5. Proposals and Initiatives

Users may propose tools, improvements, integrations, MCP servers, agents, workflows, and other initiatives related to the purpose of HugAI.

Submitting a proposal does not imply that HugAI is obligated to develop, fund, publish, or maintain it.

All initiatives are subject to technical and operational review. Each initiative has a single official status, set by HugAI. HugAI may:

• Accept or reject a proposal.
• Request additional information from the proposer.
• Identify duplicate proposals and link them to an existing initiative.
• Edit the title, summary, or description to clarify or correct them, without changing their meaning.
• Modify or define the scope.
• Estimate the required effort.
• Place an initiative on hold.
• Cancel an initiative.
• Archive a proposal.
• Hide proposals that are spam or breach these Terms.

Decisions to reject, pause, or cancel an initiative are communicated publicly with their reason on the corresponding page, which keeps the status history.

The proposer is shown publicly as such on the initiative and, if it is published, on the resulting tool.

6. Voting and Community Participation

The community may express its interest through upvotes or downvotes, comments, and other available interactions.

Each person has a single vote per initiative, which they can change or withdraw at any time. Votes freeze when an initiative becomes Rejected, Duplicate, Cancelled, or Archived. Only votes from identities with a verified email address are counted.

Votes reflect the opinions or preferences of the participants. They do not constitute technical approval, a guarantee of development, or an obligation of execution for HugAI.

Popularity and participation indicators do not automatically determine the status or the order of development. The Community Ranking shows interest; the Development Roadmap is the work plan defined by HugAI, with a maximum of two (2) initiatives in development at the same time.

HugAI retains the responsibility to evaluate feasibility, scope, effort, technical priorities, and available capacity.

We may implement reasonable measures to prevent duplicate votes, metric manipulation, spam, or any other abusive use, including annulling votes that we consider manipulated. Each annulment is recorded.

7. Comments and Community Content

Comments and replies must be relevant, respectful, and related to the corresponding initiative. The community adopts the Contributor Covenant as its code of conduct.

To comment you need an account with a username and to have voted on the initiative, either up or down. If you withdraw your vote, your comments remain, but you need to vote again to write new ones.

You can edit a comment during the first fifteen (15) minutes after posting it; after that it is shown as edited. If you delete a comment, it is shown as “[deleted]” and its replies are kept.

It is not permitted to publish:

• Illegal content or content that infringes third-party rights.
• Threats, harassment, discrimination, or incitement to violence.
• Spam, unauthorized advertising, or misleading content.
• Malware, malicious code, or instructions intended to harm systems.
• Third-party credentials, trade secrets, or confidential information.
• Third-party personal data without authorization.
• Copyright-protected material without authorization or a valid legal basis.

Comments are published immediately and moderated afterwards. Signed-in users can report other people's comments, giving a reason. A comment that gathers three (3) open reports is hidden automatically until HugAI reviews it.

HugAI may moderate, hide, or remove content that violates these Terms or poses a risk to the community, users, or the Platform, and may disable comments on an initiative. Administrators may edit comments when necessary; those edits are recorded.

8. Sharing Initiatives

Sharing functionalities allow tools and initiatives to be disseminated outside of HugAI, by copying the link or using your device's share function.

Sharing is not measured or shown as an indicator, and does not imply approval, endorsement, or commitment to development by HugAI.

9. Voluntary Time Contributions

When this functionality is enabled, HugAI will allow users to voluntarily support development through contributions that represent additional dedicated time, at a rate of thirty US dollars (US$ 30) per hour.

The available options are:

Contributions are charged in US dollars through PayPal and are recorded only when PayPal confirms the payment.

You can contribute to an initiative from the Community Prioritization status onwards, or to the project's General fund, which HugAI assigns to platform maintenance, maintenance of published tools, or initiatives, recording each allocation.

Contributions:

• Are voluntary.
• Represent additional development time; they are not the purchase of a product or of custom work.
• Do not represent an investment or equity participation.
• Do not grant intellectual property over the project.
• Do not grant special decision-making rights, priority over other people, or features.
• Do not guarantee that an initiative will be developed or published.
• Do not imply a guaranteed delivery date.
• Do not fund private work: custom projects are hired separately through Slackdevs.

The base effort estimated by HugAI and the time contributed by the community are distinct dimensions: the total development budget is the sum of both. Additional time does not automatically modify the scope of an initiative. If the scope changes, HugAI may make a new estimate and will communicate it.

Refunds: only contributions made by mistake or duplicate payments are refunded, at the request of the person who contributed and within fourteen (14) days of the payment.

Cancelled initiatives: if an initiative you contributed to is cancelled, the unexecuted time is reassigned. You can choose another initiative within thirty (30) days; if you do not choose, the time goes to the General fund. The reassignment is recorded in your account.

Contributions already made are kept in the initiative's history. The foregoing is without prejudice to any rights that may apply under applicable law.

10. Development, Publication, and Maintenance

HugAI evaluates and manages initiatives according to their feasibility, scope, effort, and operational capacity.

Initiative statuses reflect their situation at the time of viewing and may change throughout their lifecycle.

Effort estimates are expressed in hours, are indicative, and do not constitute guaranteed delivery dates.

Published tools are offered under an open-source license, indicated in the repository and on the page of each tool. The MIT license is used by default; Apache-2.0 may be used for projects that require patent protection.

Each project may have its own conditions, dependencies, licenses, and technical requirements. The user must review that information before using, modifying, or redistributing the software.

Maintenance is best effort. A tool may move to the Maintenance status (bug and security fixes only), Deprecated (with ninety (90) days' prior notice and a suggested alternative, when one exists), or Archived (read-only repository). HugAI does not guarantee indefinite maintenance, future compatibility, or permanent continuity of all projects.

11. Intellectual Property

11.1. Platform

The code of the HugAI.dev platform is published under the AGPL-3.0 license, and the documentation and content under the CC BY 4.0 license, unless otherwise indicated.

The HugAI trademark, logo, and visual identity are not included in those licenses. No general license is granted to use them outside of uses permitted by law or expressly authorized.

11.2. Open Source Tools and Projects

Each published tool or project has its own license, which determines the permissions for use, modification, and distribution.

The applicable license is the one indicated in the project's repository or documentation. In the event of a conflict, the terms of the specific license corresponding to the software prevail.

11.3. User-Submitted Content

Users retain their corresponding rights over the original content they publish. Content is shown in the language it was written in; HugAI does not translate it.

By submitting proposals, comments, documentation, or other materials to HugAI, you grant a non-exclusive, royalty-free authorization limited to what is necessary to host, reproduce, display, distribute, and manage that content within the Platform and its communication channels related to the initiative. If your proposal becomes a published tool, the authorization includes using its description on that tool's page.

This authorization does not transfer ownership of your rights nor permit the use of your content for purposes unrelated to the operation and dissemination of the Platform.

Do not publish confidential material or content over which you do not have sufficient rights to grant this authorization.

Code contributions accepted into a repository are governed by that project's license and require a DCO sign-off (Developer Certificate of Origin, through the Signed-off-by line). No contributor license agreement (CLA) is required.

12. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Interfere with the security or availability of the Platform.
• Access accounts, systems, or information without authorization.
• Perform reverse engineering for unlawful purposes.
• Introduce malware or malicious code.
• Manipulate votes, comments, reports, metrics, or contributions, for example through multiple accounts or disposable email addresses.
• Use automated mechanisms to abuse the services.
• Impersonate identities.
• Infringe third-party intellectual property or privacy rights.
• Use HugAI for illegal activities.

HugAI may apply reasonable restrictions in the event of breaches, without prejudice to any legal actions that may apply.

13. Third-Party Tools and Artificial Intelligence

HugAI may integrate, link to, or publish tools that use third-party services, artificial intelligence models, APIs, infrastructure providers, and external platforms.

Those services may be subject to their own terms, licenses, privacy policies, usage limits, and costs.

HugAI does not control the decisions, availability, outputs, or changes made by external providers.

Outputs generated by artificial intelligence systems may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or unsuitable for certain uses.

The user is responsible for verifying the outputs before using them in professional, commercial, technical, legal, financial, or any other relevant contexts.

14. Availability and Limitations

HugAI endeavors to keep the Platform available, but does not guarantee that the site or its functionalities will operate without interruptions, errors, or delays.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue functionalities for technical, operational, security, or legal reasons.

Open-source tools are published under the terms of their respective licenses. Unless expressly stated otherwise, they are offered "as is" and without additional warranties of operation, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, or absence of errors, within the limits permitted by applicable law.

15. Liability

The user is responsible for their use of the Platform, the tools they execute, and compliance with applicable licenses and terms.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, HugAI shall not be liable for damages arising from:

• Improper use of the Platform or the tools.
• Decisions made solely on the basis of outputs generated by artificial intelligence.
• Interruptions or failures of third-party services.
• Loss of information caused by reasons outside a breach attributable to HugAI.
• Modifications, integrations, or deployments carried out by users.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liabilities that cannot be legally excluded or limited, nor restricts non-waivable rights recognized by applicable regulations.

16. Privacy

The processing of personal data is governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

By using HugAI's functionalities, you accept the processing of data in accordance with said Policy and applicable legislation.

17. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Platform at any time and request the deletion of your account by writing to legal@hugai.dev from the associated email address.

HugAI may suspend or terminate access to an account when there are reasonable grounds related to breaches of these Terms, security, fraud, abuse, or legal requirements.

The termination of an account does not necessarily imply the deletion of all public records of initiatives, comments, or contributions. The retention of those records will be subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable regulations.

18. Modifications to These Terms

We may modify these Terms to reflect changes in the Platform, its functionalities, or the applicable legal framework.

The current version will be available on HugAI.dev and will indicate its update date.

When changes are substantial, we will endeavor to communicate them through reasonable means. Continued use of the Platform after the changes take effect will be subject to the new Terms, without affecting the rights recognized to users by law.

19. Language

These Terms are published in Spanish and English. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the Spanish version prevails.

20. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Argentine Republic.

Any dispute shall be submitted to the competent courts in accordance with applicable rules of jurisdiction.

Where consumer protection legislation applies, the rights and rules of territorial jurisdiction established by such regulations will be respected, without imposing waivers of non-waivable consumer rights.

21. Contact

For inquiries related to these Terms:

Data Controller: HugAI.dev – Sebastián Larrauri
Email: legal@hugai.dev
Legal domicile: Mendoza 764, Córdoba, Argentina.