Terms of use
These terms are between you and Bald Cactus, LLC ("we", "us"), the maker of Kiko. They cover the Kiko app for macOS, the optional Kiko account and the free trial (account.kiko.sh and api.kiko.sh), and this website, kiko.sh. By installing or using Kiko, signing in to an account, or using kiko.sh, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use them.
The short version
- Kiko's code is under the FSL-1.1-MIT license.
- Kiko acts in your coding agents for you. It can approve what they ask, type into them and send what it heard, and it can get things wrong. What your agents do is your responsibility.
- You use your own keys, so you pay your own providers and follow their terms.
- An account is optional: one person each. The free trial is one per person, through Kiko only, with no card, and it just stops at the end. No paid plans yet.
- Kiko is in early development and comes as is, with no warranty.
The license
Kiko's software is licensed under the Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License (FSL-1.1-MIT). Each release includes the license as LICENSE.md (installed in ~/.local/share/kiko/current/). In short, you may use, copy, change and share Kiko for any purpose except a competing use as the license defines it, and each release becomes available under the MIT license two years after it's made available.
The license governs your rights to the software. These terms add the rules for using it and the site; they don't take away any right the license gives you, and where the two disagree about the software, the license wins. Kiko includes parts made by others (such as tmux) under their own licenses, listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt in each release.
Kiko acts for you in your coding agents
Kiko is a remote control for your coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode and T3 Code). It does things in them on your behalf, so please read this part carefully.
What Kiko can do
- Approve what an agent asks. When an agent asks for permission (to run a command, change files, use a tool), Kiko can answer yes for you when you say yes, or when it understood you as saying yes. "Always" adds a lasting rule that the agent offers, so later requests like it go ahead without asking.
- Type into your sessions. It sends your words into a session as if you had typed them, and the agent acts on them.
- Send what it heard. It sends what it understood you to say, to the session it thinks you mean.
What can go wrong
- Speech-to-text mishears. "No" can be heard as "go", a name as another name, and in hands-free mode, other voices or audio near your Mac can be taken for yours.
- Models make mistakes. Kiko uses language models to work out which session you mean, whether your answer is a yes, how risky a request looks, and what a reply said. They can send your words to the wrong session, treat an answer as a yes, call a risky request safe, or leave out what mattered from a summary.
- Kiko can be slow, stop or fail, and an agent may then wait, time out, or ask in its own window.
So:
- You're responsible for what your agents do, whether you approved it by voice, with a key, or Kiko approved it on what it heard from you. That includes commands they run, files they change or delete, code they push, and anything they deploy, buy or send.
- Review risky actions yourself, in the agent, before they run: deleting things, migrations, deploys, force pushes, anything touching production, secrets or money. A spoken summary isn't a review.
- Keep your agents' own safety settings. Their permission modes, sandboxes and allow and deny lists are your real safeguard. Kiko's own defaults (new sessions in Accept edits, what Voice can do, quick tasks staying read-only, the risk check) help, but they aren't a guarantee, and they don't replace the agent's.
- Mind where you use it. Use hands-free mode only where you're comfortable with what nearby voices could start, and keep backups and version control for anything you'd hate to lose.
Your providers and costs
Outside the free trial, Kiko uses your own accounts and keys: OpenRouter by default, and Anthropic, Deepgram or Cartesia if you add them, plus your coding agents' own accounts. That means:
- You pay your providers' charges for everything Kiko does with your keys, including retries, longer summaries, and calls made because of a mistake. The costs Kiko shows are estimates; your provider's bill is what counts.
- You follow their terms, including their usage policies and limits: OpenRouter, Anthropic, Deepgram, Cartesia, and those of your coding agents.
- Their services are theirs. We don't run them and aren't responsible for their availability, prices, output or how they handle your data. Our privacy policy says what Kiko sends to each.
- Keep your keys safe. Kiko stores them in the macOS Keychain, but anyone with access to your Mac account may be able to use them.
Your account (optional)
You don't need an account to use Kiko with your own keys. You need one for the free trial.
- One person per account. Don't share it, and don't sign other people's Macs in to it.
- Use an email address that's yours, that you can receive mail at, and keep it current.
- Keep it secure. Anyone who gets into your Mac, your email or your Google account can use your Kiko account, and you're responsible for what's done with it. Only approve a sign-in code you started yourself.
- You can delete it any time, on the account page (account.kiko.sh/account). Our privacy policy says what's kept and for how long.
- We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or to stop abuse.
The free trial
- 7 days or $2 of AI usage, whichever comes first, with at most $0.50 a day. No card, and nothing is charged: at the end it just stops. Your own key always works after it.
- One trial per person. Don't make more accounts, or use other email addresses, to get more trials.
- Don't get around its limits, or try to.
- Only through Kiko. No scripts or other programs calling our service (api.kiko.sh) directly, and no reselling or sharing access to it.
- The providers' rules apply too. The trial's requests go to OpenRouter and the model's provider, and you must follow their terms and usage policies: OpenRouter, and the model provider's (Anthropic's usage policy for Claude Haiku, the default).
- We may end a trial for abuse, with any other trials linked to it, without notice.
- No promise it's available. The trial can pause (for example when too many are used in one day), and we may change it or stop offering it to new sign-ups.
- AI makes mistakes during the trial too. What the trial's models produce is covered by everything on this page, as for your own key: it can be wrong (Kiko acts for you), and you're responsible for what your agents do.
Payments
Kiko has no paid plans yet, and we never ask for a card. Paid plans (Kiko Pro) will come later, with their own terms, which you'll see before you can buy one.
Acceptable use
Don't use Kiko, your account, the free trial or kiko.sh to:
- break the law or anyone's rights, or help someone else do so;
- listen to, record or transcribe people without the consent the law where you are requires;
- control computers, accounts or systems you aren't allowed to;
- use a provider's or an agent's service in a way its terms forbid;
- attack, overload, probe or scrape kiko.sh, get around its limits, or sign up other people's email addresses.
If you find a security problem in Kiko or the site, please tell us at support@kiko.sh rather than using it.
The website and email list
kiko.sh hosts this page, the install script and Kiko's releases. The email list is optional, and you can leave it at any time. We may change or stop the site, the list, updates, the account service, the free trial or Kiko itself at any time. You can stop using Kiko and delete your account at any time. Kiko is in early development: features may change or go away, and updates may change how it behaves.
"Kiko" and its logo are ours. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, T3 Code and the providers named here are their owners' trademarks; Kiko works with them but isn't made, endorsed or supported by them.
No warranty
Kiko, your account, the free trial and kiko.sh are provided as they are, without promises that they'll work, be accurate or suit your needs.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Kiko, your account, the free trial and kiko.sh are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We don't warrant that Kiko will hear or understand you correctly, send your words to the right session, answer permission prompts as you intended, judge the risk of a request correctly, or summarize accurately.
Limitation of liability
If something goes wrong, our responsibility is limited.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Bald Cactus, LLC and its members, employees and contributors won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or code, damage to systems, charges from your providers, or the consequences of actions your coding agents took, including actions approved, typed or sent through Kiko, however caused and even if we were told they were possible, including through your account or the free trial. Our total liability for any claim about Kiko, your account, the free trial or kiko.sh is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Kiko in the 12 months before the claim and US$50.
Some places don't allow some of these exclusions or limits, so they may not all apply to you; where they don't, our liability is limited as far as the law there allows.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We'll post the new version here with a new effective date, and for a change that matters we'll also say so in Kiko's release notes. If you keep using Kiko or kiko.sh after a change takes effect, the new terms apply; if you don't agree, stop using them and run kiko uninstall.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about them goes to the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction. Nothing here takes away rights you have under the consumer protection laws where you live.
The rest
- These terms, the license and our privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Kiko and kiko.sh.
- If a part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
- If we don't enforce a part right away, we haven't given it up.
- You can't transfer these terms to someone else; we may transfer them, for example if Kiko moves to another company.
- The iPhone companion, the relay and paid plans (Kiko Pro) aren't released yet. They'll come with their own terms when they are.
Contact
Help with Kiko, security problems, privacy, and anything else: support@kiko.sh.