SpecBuddy End User License Agreement

Effective date: 2026-07-03

This End User License Agreement (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you (“you” or “User”) and Alexander Shustanov, an individual software developer (“Developer”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), governing your installation and use of SpecBuddy, including any related updates, documentation, and services we provide with it (the “Software”).

Please read this Agreement carefully. By installing, accessing, or using the Software, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use the Software.

1. What SpecBuddy Does

SpecBuddy is an IDE plugin that helps software developers structure AI-assisted development through specifications, implementation plans, step-by-step execution, and review of generated changes. SpecBuddy may integrate with third-party AI coding agents, developer tools, IDEs, marketplaces, and services, including but not limited to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

SpecBuddy does not replace your professional judgment. You remain responsible for reviewing, testing, securing, and approving any specifications, plans, code, commands, diffs, or other outputs created or executed through the Software or through connected third-party tools.

2. License Grant

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software for your internal software development purposes.

Unless we state otherwise in a separate written agreement, this license is provided for evaluation, beta, and/or free public beta use only. Commercial terms, paid plans, feature limits, and team features may be introduced later and may require acceptance of additional terms.

3. Ownership

The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all rights, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual property rights. No rights are granted to you except those expressly stated in this Agreement.

You retain ownership of your source code, project files, specifications, plans, prompts, comments, configuration, and other content that you create or provide while using the Software (“User Content”).

4. User Content and AI Outputs

You are solely responsible for User Content and for any outputs generated by AI agents, language models, or other third-party tools used with the Software (“AI Outputs”).

As between you and the Developer, we do not claim ownership of your User Content or AI Outputs. However, ownership and use rights for AI Outputs may also be governed by the terms of the third-party AI service or agent you choose to use. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with those third-party terms.

You represent that you have all necessary rights to use User Content with the Software and any third-party services you connect to it. You must not use the Software with content that you are not authorized to process, transmit, disclose, or modify.

5. Third-Party Services and Agents

The Software may allow you to connect, call, launch, or coordinate third-party tools and services, including AI coding agents, model providers, IDE platforms, package managers, source control tools, terminals, and marketplace distribution services.

Third-party services are not controlled by us. They may have their own terms, privacy practices, fees, rate limits, security controls, output licenses, data retention rules, and availability constraints. We are not responsible for third-party services, third-party outputs, or any data processing performed by third-party services.

If you configure the Software to use third-party services, you authorize the Software to send the information required for that integration, which may include prompts, specifications, file paths, project context, code excerpts, command output, or other development context, depending on the feature used and your configuration.

You are responsible for managing your third-party accounts, API keys, credentials, subscriptions, permissions, and usage costs.

6. Beta and Preview Features

The Software may be provided as an alpha, beta, preview, experimental, or early access product. Beta and preview features may be incomplete, unstable, changed without notice, or discontinued.

You should not rely on beta or preview features for critical production workflows without independent review, backups, testing, and rollback procedures. We may collect feedback about beta features and may use that feedback to improve the Software without obligation to you.

7. Telemetry, Diagnostics, and Privacy

The Software may collect product analytics, telemetry, diagnostics, crash reports, error logs, and usage events to help us understand adoption, improve reliability, and support users. Where available, the Software will provide controls to opt out of non-essential analytics.

We will process personal data according to our Privacy Policy.

Do not use the Software to submit secrets, credentials, regulated personal data, confidential business information, customer data, or sensitive code to us or to third-party services unless you are authorized to do so and have reviewed the applicable privacy and security terms.

8. Acceptable Use and Restrictions

You must not:

copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, host, or provide access to the Software except as expressly permitted by this Agreement;
reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of the Software, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
remove or alter proprietary notices, attribution, license notices, or security controls;
use the Software to violate law, infringe rights, bypass access controls, distribute malware, conduct unauthorized security testing, or attack third-party systems;
use the Software to process content that you have no legal right to use;
interfere with the operation of the Software, our services, marketplaces, or third-party integrations;
use the Software in a way that violates the terms of any IDE, marketplace, AI provider, repository host, or other third-party service used with it;
benchmark, publish performance comparisons, or perform competitive analysis of the Software without our prior written consent, except where such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
use the Software to develop a directly competing product if you are accessing non-public beta builds, private documentation, or confidential product information.

9. Security and Development Responsibility

AI-assisted software development can introduce errors, vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, unsafe commands, data leaks, or unintended changes. You are responsible for:

reviewing all specifications, plans, commands, diffs, generated code, and AI Outputs before accepting or merging them;
running appropriate tests, static analysis, security scans, dependency checks, and license compliance checks;
maintaining backups, version control, and rollback procedures;
protecting secrets, credentials, private keys, tokens, and confidential data;
ensuring that your use of the Software complies with your employer’s policies and applicable law.

We are not responsible for code quality, security defects, intellectual property issues, outages, data loss, business interruption, or other consequences arising from your use of AI Outputs or third-party services.

10. Updates and Changes

We may provide updates, patches, new versions, or changes to the Software. Updates may add, modify, or remove features. Some updates may be required for continued operation, security, or compatibility with IDEs, marketplaces, or third-party services.

We may modify this Agreement from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the Software, marketplace listing, website, release notes, or other appropriate channel. Continued use after the updated Agreement becomes effective means you accept the updated Agreement.

11. Support

Unless separately agreed in writing, we provide the Software without any support commitment, service level agreement, uptime commitment, response time, maintenance obligation, or obligation to fix defects. We may offer community, beta, or best-effort support through channels we choose.

Support contact: alex@specbuddy.dev.

12. Confidentiality

If you receive non-public builds, documentation, roadmap information, pricing, technical information, or other information marked or reasonably understood as confidential, you must use it only for evaluating or using the Software and must not disclose it to third parties without our prior written consent.

This section does not apply to information that is publicly available, already known to you without confidentiality obligations, independently developed by you, or lawfully received from a third party without confidentiality obligations.

13. Open Source and Third-Party Components

The Software may include or be distributed with open-source or third-party components. Those components are governed by their own license terms. To the extent required by those licenses, the third-party license terms apply instead of this Agreement for those components.

Nothing in this Agreement limits your rights under applicable open-source licenses.

14. Export Control and Sanctions

You must comply with all applicable export control, sanctions, import, and trade compliance laws and regulations. You must not use, download, export, re-export, or transfer the Software in violation of such laws or for prohibited end uses.

You represent that you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, and that you are not listed on any applicable restricted party list, unless your use is legally authorized.

15. Termination

This Agreement remains in effect until terminated. You may terminate it at any time by uninstalling and ceasing all use of the Software.

We may suspend or terminate your license if you breach this Agreement, misuse the Software, create legal or security risk, violate third-party terms, or if we discontinue the Software or relevant beta program.

Upon termination, you must stop using and uninstall the Software. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, restrictions, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law, and dispute resolution.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Software is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.

We disclaim all warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, availability, security, compatibility, and error-free operation.

We do not warrant that the Software, third-party services, AI Outputs, or generated code will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted or secure, be free from errors or vulnerabilities, or produce correct, lawful, safe, or useful results.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data, code, use, security, or productivity, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Software will not exceed the greater of:

the amount you paid us for the Software in the 12 months before the event giving rise to liability; or
USD 100.

The limitations in this section apply to all theories of liability, including contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, and statute. They do not limit liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

18. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Developer and the Developer’s affiliates, contractors, and licensors from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from or related to:

your use or misuse of the Software;
your User Content or AI Outputs;
your violation of this Agreement, applicable law, or third-party terms;
your infringement or alleged infringement of third-party rights;
your software, products, services, or systems developed using the Software.

19. Marketplace Terms

If you obtain the Software through a marketplace, IDE vendor, app store, or plugin repository, your use may also be subject to that platform’s terms and policies. If there is a conflict between this Agreement and mandatory marketplace terms, the marketplace terms apply only to the extent of the conflict.

The marketplace provider is not responsible for the Software unless its own terms state otherwise.

If you obtain the Software through JetBrains Marketplace: the Developer, not JetBrains, is the licensor of the Software. JetBrains is not a party to this Agreement and has no obligations, responsibility, or liability under it, including any warranty, maintenance, or support obligations with respect to the Software.

20. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Software will be resolved in the courts located in London, England, unless applicable law requires another forum.

If you are a consumer, you may have mandatory rights under the laws of your country of residence. Nothing in this Agreement limits rights that cannot be waived by contract.

21. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer this Agreement without our prior written consent. We may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, sale of assets, financing, change of control, or transfer of the Software or related business, including an assignment to a legal entity formed or controlled by the Developer.

22. Entire Agreement

This Agreement, together with any referenced policies and any additional terms we expressly provide, is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Software and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.

If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver.

23. Contact

Licensor: Alexander Shustanov (individual)

Email: alex@specbuddy.dev

Website: https://specbuddy.dev

Support: alex@specbuddy.dev