LEGAL

Terms of service

Last updated 16 September 2026

The hosted relay is free, has no accounts, and comes with no guarantees. Share only what you are allowed to share, keep your tokens private, and remember that redaction can miss things.

1. Scope

These terms apply to the hosted relay at relay.aken.dev (the “relay”), provided by Haylee Schäfer (see the imprint). You accept them by using the relay, including through the Aken collector or local MCP with their default settings.

The Aken software itself is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, and these terms do not restrict that licence. If you run your own relay, these terms do not apply to it.

2. The service

The relay temporarily stores and forwards encrypted content between the Aken collector on your server and the local MCP on your machine. It is free of charge and requires no account.

Aken is early-stage software run by a single maintainer. The relay is provided as it is, with no promised availability, support, or response time. Its features, limits, and session lifetimes may change, and it may be interrupted or shut down at any time. Stored content is deleted when a session expires and is not backed up, so do not rely on the relay to keep anything.

3. Your responsibilities

• What you share. You decide which logs and files Aken can read and what it uploads. Share only data you are entitled to share, and make sure you have a legal basis for any personal data it contains.
• Redaction. Redaction is an extra layer of protection, not a guarantee. It can miss secrets and personal data. Review what you share, add rules for your own application, and use the approval levels that fit your risk.
• Your agent. Anything your coding agent reads through Aken is sent to its model provider under your agreement with that provider. Aken cannot recall it.
• Tokens. Keep session tokens private. Anyone who holds a snapshot token can read that snapshot until it expires, and a live session token can pair a machine with your collector. End a session early if a token may have leaked.
• Access you already grant. Aken does not remove access your agent has through other tools. Keeping SSH keys and other credentials out of your agent's reach is up to you.

4. Acceptable use

Use the relay only for its purpose: sharing diagnostic context from systems you operate or are authorised to operate. Do not:

• upload content that is illegal, or that you have no right to share;
• use the relay as general file hosting, a file-sharing service, or a channel for malware or command-and-control traffic;
• collect logs from systems without the operator's permission;
• work around rate limits or size limits, or place a disproportionate load on the service;
• attempt to access sessions that are not yours, or disrupt the relay or its users.

Report security vulnerabilities to security@aken.dev as described in the security policy. Good-faith research under that policy is not a breach of these terms.

5. Enforcement

If there are concrete signs that the relay is being misused, sessions may be deleted and IP addresses or networks blocked, without notice where necessary to stop the misuse. Report abuse to abuse@aken.dev. Because content is end-to-end encrypted, the relay operator cannot inspect it. Reports should include the session identifier and approximate time if known.

6. Liability

Because the relay is provided free of charge, liability is limited to intent and gross negligence. This limitation does not apply to injury to life, body, or health, to liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), or where a defect was fraudulently concealed.

In particular, there is no liability for data exposed because redaction missed it, because a token was disclosed, or because of what your coding agent or its model provider did with content it received.

7. Privacy

What the relay processes and for how long is described in the privacy policy.

8. Changes to these terms

These terms may change as Aken develops, for example if accounts or paid plans are introduced. The date at the top shows the current version. Changes apply to sessions opened after they are published. If you do not agree with a change, stop using the relay.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not remove the protection of mandatory rules in the country where you live. If you are a merchant, the courts at the provider's place of residence have jurisdiction, as far as the law permits.

If any provision of these terms is invalid, the remaining provisions stay in effect.