Desktop and Machine Service Agreement

This agreement is between you and Simorg Oy (“Simorg”) and covers the Simorg machine service, the programs that talk to it — Simorg Desktop and the simorg command — and their use with the Simorg platform. It forms part of the Simorg Terms of Service, which apply to everything not covered here, together with the Privacy Policy and the Desktop and Machine Service privacy notice shown beside this text. Accepting it in whichever program asks you, and signing in, means you accept all of them. If you do not accept, do not sign in, and uninstall the service. If you accept for a company or another organisation, you confirm that you may agree on its behalf.

The machine service runs in the background on Windows, macOS and Linux, under your own user account and with your own permissions. It keeps this computer signed in, registers it with the platform so agents can be placed on it, runs those agents in containers here, and answers the programs you use to see and control all of this. It has no window of its own. Simorg Desktop is the window and the menu-bar icon; the simorg command offers the same controls in a terminal. Nothing here runs anywhere but on this computer.

Simorg, its language, its execution engine, the platform and this software are in Beta. They are ready to build and experiment with, and they are still changing: interfaces, formats and behaviour can change between versions, and an update may require you to change what you have built. Please weigh that before using them in production, for business-critical work, or for anything you cannot afford to lose or to do again. That decision, and the responsibility for what follows from it, are yours.

You need a Simorg account to sign in. Creating one and recovering a password happen on our website in your browser, so that email verification and everything after it stay in one place. You are responsible for what is done with your account and for keeping your sign-in details to yourself, and you should tell us as soon as you believe somebody else has them. You must be at least 16 years old.

Signing in registers this computer with the platform as a machine, which is what lets agents be placed on it. The service sends a fingerprint derived from your operating system’s own machine identifier, and a description of the computer so that your machine page can say what it is. The identifier itself never leaves the service. You can remove the machine from the platform whenever you like, and signing out ends the session this computer holds.

• One machine service runs for each user on a computer. A second one refuses to start rather than registering the same machine twice.

• Removing the machine stops further work being sent here. Containers already on this computer stay until you remove them.

The machine service is proprietary software, and all rights in it are reserved. Simorg grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install it on computers you own or control and to use it with the Simorg platform, for as long as you accept these terms. You may not copy it except as installing it and backing it up require; modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law allows that despite this limitation; remove or alter its notices; or distribute, sublicense, rent, lend or resell it. Simorg Desktop and the simorg command are free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or any later version: you may use, study, share and change them under that licence, their source code is published, and nothing in this agreement narrows the rights it gives you. The Simorg name, logo and brand remain ours. All of this software contains components written by others under their own licences; their notices are installed with it and can be read under Settings → Licences in Simorg Desktop.

Agents run in containers, so this computer needs a container engine, and installing one is yours to do: Simorg never installs, updates or bundles one. When a program first connects to the service, the service uses the Docker already on this computer, whichever you installed, starts it where it knows how, and downloads the agent image, showing each step while it happens. Where a step needs an administrator’s permission, your operating system asks you, or the command you are running in a terminal does.

• Any Docker works: Docker Desktop, OrbStack, Rancher Desktop, Colima, or Docker Engine on Linux.

• The service starts a stopped Colima machine or Linux Docker service when it needs one. Any other engine you start yourself, and the service says which.

An agent runs on this computer only while somebody is signed in here whose account is a member of that agent with access to it. Owning the computer does not, by itself, let an agent run on it. Every agent placed here runs in its own container, with its own working directory and its own cache, and can see neither the rest of your disk nor another agent’s folder. When an agent needs more than that, such as a folder of yours, you are asked and you answer, and the folder is chosen in your operating system’s own file picker rather than from a list Simorg drew. You decide how much processor, memory and disk the engine may take. You are responsible for the agents you run here and for what you give them access to.

On macOS and Linux the installer registers the service to start whenever somebody signs in to this computer, in the place your platform keeps such entries, and uninstalling the service removes the entry. On Windows nothing is registered: the service starts when Simorg Desktop or the simorg command needs it, and is started again if it stops while either of them is open. The entries are:

• macOS: a launch agent named tech.simorg.machine in /Library/LaunchAgents.

• Linux: a systemd user unit named simorgm.service, enabled for every user.

New versions of Simorg Desktop, the machine service and the agent runtime are offered under Settings → Updates, and each installs when you press Update, with your agents kept running where that is possible. Nothing updates itself without that press. The Beta is a moving target, and an update you decline may leave this computer unable to take new work until it is installed.

The acceptable-use rules of the Terms of Service apply here. In short: use Simorg lawfully and considerately; do not use it to reach systems you have no permission to touch, to distribute malware, to mine other people’s resources, to infringe anybody’s rights, or to work around the limits of the platform or of machines other people have offered; do not present the platform as your own or resell access to it. We may limit or end access when these rules are broken.

So far as the law allows, the platform and this software are provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, and are not designed, intended or certified for high-risk or safety-critical use. So far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damage, nor for lost profit, lost business, lost data or interrupted business, and our total liability to a business customer is capped as the Terms of Service state. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and if you are a consumer your statutory rights are untouched. The Disclaimer and sections 15 to 17 of the Terms of Service set this out in full, and they apply to this software exactly as they apply to the platform.

You can stop at any time: sign out, remove this machine from the platform, and uninstall the service. Signing out removes the account’s session, cache, applications and agent data from this computer. We may suspend or end access, and the licence in section 6 ends with it, if these terms are broken, if we are required to, or if the service is discontinued; the rights the GNU General Public License gives you in Simorg Desktop and the simorg command are not affected. The sections that by their nature should outlast this agreement do outlast it.

This agreement is governed by the law of Finland, and the District Court of Helsinki has jurisdiction, except where the law of the country you live in lets you, as a consumer, bring a claim there. If any part of this agreement turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Write to info@simorg.tech about anything here. The current edition of every document, and the company details behind them, are published at simorg.tech/legal. Simorg Oy, Kalevankatu 26 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland, Business ID 3615774-7.