Skipper Terms of Use

In short

• The software itself is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. That license — not this page — says what you may do with the app, and it is the same text the app shows under Settings → About.
• There is no account and nothing to sign for the free app. By downloading Skipper, using the site, the relay or a board link you accept these terms.
• Skipper runs the agent CLIs you already have, on your own accounts. What those agents do on your Mac is your responsibility, the same as if you had typed the commands yourself.
• The paid Skipper plan is a subscription sold by the operator through Stripe. You can cancel it at any time, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal, and our liability for it is limited only as far as German law allows — not further.
• Skipper is free to download today. Nothing is charged until the plan is on sale and you press an order button that says so.

Who you are contracting with

Ivan Chabanenko, a sole trader (Einzelunternehmen) at Lutherstraße 12, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany — not a company. He owns skipperwow.com and the machine the relay runs on. The full legal disclosure, including the VAT ID, is on the Impressum page. Questions about these terms: support-skipper@chbnk.one.

Language of the contract. The contract is concluded in English, and English is the language in which we correspond with you. The statutory withdrawal instruction is additionally provided in German, which is the binding version of that instruction (see the Right of withdrawal page).

The software

Skipper for macOS is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. You may use it, copy it, change it and pass it on under that license; the full text is on the License page and inside the app. The license disclaims warranties and limits liability for the software as such, and those clauses apply to the free app. Where you have bought the Skipper plan, the sections on defects and liability below apply to that plan.

Third-party components inside Skipper are listed, with their licenses and the notices those licenses require, on the Attribution page and in the app.

Skipper launches command-line agents made by other companies — Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Gemini CLI, opencode, aider and whatever else you point it at. Each of them runs under its maker's terms, on your account and with your keys. Skipper does not resell tokens, hold your accounts or stand between you and those services.

The Skipper plan

The Skipper plan is the paid part of Skipper: the services and features the pricing page names for it at the time you order. It is an optional, recurring subscription billed through our payment processor, Stripe. The operator named above is the seller; Stripe only processes the payment.

All prices shown are final prices — Kleinunternehmer gemäß § 19 UStG, es wird keine Umsatzsteuer ausgewiesen (no VAT is charged or shown). The price, the billing period and any trial are stated on the pricing page and repeated on the checkout page before you order.

The subscription renews automatically for the same period until it is cancelled. You can cancel at any time, with effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, online at Cancel contracts here — no login and no other step is required — or by email. The free app and the Apache License 2.0 do not depend on the plan: ending the plan ends the paid services, not Skipper.

You must be at least 16 years old to order the plan. If you are under 18, you need your parent's or guardian's agreement (§§ 106 ff. BGB).

How the contract comes about

This section is the information we owe you under § 312i Abs. 1 BGB and Art. 246c EGBGB.

The technical steps:

1. You read what the plan includes and what it costs on the pricing page.
2. You press the order button on the site; our checkout page opens and shows your order — the service, the term, the total price, what is due today and the cancellation conditions.
3. You enter your email address, your payment details and your billing address.
4. You tick the box by which you expressly ask us to start the service before the withdrawal period has expired. This box is never pre-ticked.
5. You press the button labelled „zahlungspflichtig bestellen“ — “order with obligation to pay”. That press is your binding order; nothing before it orders anything.
6. We confirm the contract to you by email, on a durable medium, including these terms as in force at that moment and the withdrawal instruction (§ 312f Abs. 2 und 3 BGB).

Correcting input errors. Up until you press the order button you can change every field on the checkout page or untick the checkbox, use your browser's back button, or simply close the page. Nothing is ordered and nothing is charged until the button is pressed. If you notice a mistake afterwards, write to support-skipper@chbnk.one; your 14-day right of withdrawal also remains available.

Storage of the contract text. We do not keep the text of your contract in an account area you can open later, because there is no account. Instead you receive the full contract content — these terms, the essential characteristics of the service, the price, the term and the withdrawal instruction — by email when the subscription starts, so you keep your own durable copy. The current version of these terms is always at skipperwow.com/terms/, and every page on this site can be saved or printed in reproducible form (§ 312i Abs. 1 Nr. 4 BGB).

Codes of conduct. We have not subscribed to any code of conduct.

Right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right to withdraw from the subscription contract within 14 days, without giving a reason. The statutory instruction in German, its English translation, the model withdrawal form and the online withdrawal function (§ 356a BGB) are on the Right of withdrawal page. Nothing in these terms limits that right.

Refunds

Two ways to get your money back — the statutory withdrawal and our voluntary money-back guarantee — are described on the Refund policy page, including which one to use when. The guarantee is in addition to your statutory rights and does not limit them.

The site, downloads and updates

The only places to get Skipper are skipperwow.com and the update check built into the app; every build is signed and notarized by Apple. A copy from anywhere else may have been changed, and these terms do not cover it.

The update check asks the release source for the current version and carries nothing else; the privacy policy describes it. You can turn it off in the app.

You may link to the site and quote it. Do not present a changed build, a changed page or a changed policy as Skipper's.

The relay and fair use

Skipper Remote and the public task-board links reach your Mac through a relay at skipperwow.com. What it sees and keeps is described in the privacy policy; in short, Remote Control traffic is encrypted end to end and the relay sees ciphertext, while a board link travels inside TLS only.

The relay has a fixed capacity, and the ceilings exist to protect it against abuse, not to meter you: a limit on the size of a single frame, on the number of rooms and connections per Mac, and on how much a room may hold before it is trimmed. When a limit is reached the request is refused with a named error and nothing else happens — the service is not slowed down, nothing is charged extra, and the contract is not ended. Nothing you keep on your Mac depends on the relay. The relay may be paused for maintenance; a planned lowering of a ceiling for paying customers is announced at least 30 days in advance under the section on changes, and you may terminate free of charge if you do not accept it.

Do not use the relay for anything illegal, to attack it or anyone else, to flood it, or to carry traffic that has nothing to do with Skipper. We may suspend a room or an address for that — after a warning, unless immediate action is needed to prevent harm — and where a suspension is not your fault you get the corresponding part of your fee back.

Board links

A public board link shows the tasks of one workspace to whoever has the link, at the depth you chose — trimmed, read-only or behind a password. You decide what to share and you are responsible for what is on it; anyone you hand the link to can read it. Revoking the link in Skipper ends the share. The boards are not read, but a share used for abuse may be removed.

What agents do on your Mac

Skipper gives each agent a real terminal. An agent can read and change files, run commands, install things, use the network and push code — whatever the account it runs under is allowed to do. Skipper's guards — the busy check before closing a pane, the trust dialog for a folder, the gates that keep an agent from typing over you — are there to help, not to take that responsibility from you. Review what your agents produce before you rely on it. This is a fact about how agents work, not a disclaimer: your rights under the next section stand.

If the service is defective — your statutory rights

A statutory liability for defects exists (es besteht ein gesetzliches Mängelhaftungsrecht). The Skipper plan is a digital service within the meaning of §§ 327 ff. BGB, and your statutory rights if it is not in conformity with the contract — to have the defect remedied, to reduce the price, to terminate, and to claim damages — apply in full. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits them. In particular, we owe you updates, including security updates, for as long as the contract runs (§ 327f BGB), and if the service is impaired for a period the fee for that period is reduced by operation of law (§ 536 BGB).

Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence; for injury to life, body or health; under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) and the corresponding European rules; and where we have given a guarantee or fraudulently concealed a defect.

For slight negligence we are liable only where we breach a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this contract possible in the first place, and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the damage that is foreseeable and typical for a contract of this kind. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded.

These limits apply equally to our legal representatives and to anyone we use to perform the contract. They do not reverse the burden of proof to your disadvantage, do not affect your rights under the previous section, and do not apply to the free app, for which the Apache License 2.0 governs.

Third-party providers

To run the relay and to sell the plan we rely on others: Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) hosts the relay, Stripe processes payments and Cloudflare routes our mail. Who receives what is the privacy policy's business, and it is the reference. We remain your contractual partner for the service as a whole; where a provider's outage causes the service to fall short, that is a defect of our service and the section on defects applies. We announce a new provider that would receive your data at least 30 days before it starts receiving it, unless one has to be replaced at short notice to keep the service running or to close a security problem — then we say so without delay.

Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms for good reason — a change in the law or in case-law, a new or changed feature, a change in the providers or the cost structure the service depends on, or the closing of a loophole. We will not use this to change the essential balance of the contract.

If you have a subscription, we tell you about an amendment by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, naming what changes and when. Until then the existing terms apply. If you do not accept the amendment you may terminate the subscription free of charge, with effect at the latest on the date the amendment would take effect, and we refund the unused part of anything you have already paid. Silence is not agreement to a material change: an amendment that materially changes the service, the price or your rights takes effect only if you actually agree to it; if you do not, the contract continues unchanged until it ends. Corrections of obvious errors and changes purely to your advantage take effect without this procedure. For the free app and the site, the revision date at the top is the version that applies.

Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms and the contract are governed by German law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Our place of business is Magdeburg, Germany.

If you are a consumer with your habitual residence in another state of the EU or EEA, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your own country of residence (Art. 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, “Rome I”). The same applies to the courts you may sue in.

Consumer dispute resolution (§ 36, § 37 VSBG). Wir sind nicht bereit und nicht verpflichtet, an Streitbeilegungsverfahren vor einer Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle teilzunehmen. — We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. You can always contact us directly, and your right to go to court is unaffected.

Trademarks

Skipper is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google or any other maker of an agent it launches. macOS, iPhone and Apple silicon are trademarks of Apple Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Severability

If a provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest remains in force and the statutory rules take the place of the invalid provision.

Contact

Questions? Email support-skipper@chbnk.one.