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Terms of Use

Effective September 11, 2026. Applies to the Quorum macOS application and to this website.

The short version. Quorum is licensed to you, not sold. It runs agents that you configure, against services you choose, and it can run commands inside a virtual machine on your Mac — so you are responsible for what your agents do and for what you send to third parties. The software is provided as-is, and liability is limited to what you paid for it.

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Joseph Ridenour ("we", "us"), the developer of Quorum (the "Software"). By downloading, installing or using the Software, or by using this website, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Software.

2. Licence

The Software is licensed, not sold. Subject to these terms, you are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Software on devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service and Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement ("Apple's Standard EULA"). Where these terms and Apple's Standard EULA conflict, the more protective term for you applies to the subject matter it covers, except that these terms govern matters Apple's EULA does not address.

3. Restrictions

You agree not to:

reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction;
rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense the Software, or redistribute it outside the App Store;
remove or alter any proprietary notice or the application's identity;
use the Software to break the law, to infringe anyone's rights, or to gain unauthorized access to any system, network or account;
use the Software to generate or distribute malware, spam, or content that violates the terms of a service it is connected to.

The Software's source code is published separately at its public repository under the licence stated there; that licence, not this section, governs your use of the source.

4. Your responsibility for agent activity

Quorum runs autonomous agents that you configure. It enforces real limits — membership-based delivery, bounded reply rounds, an App Sandbox, and a default-off virtual machine for any agent you give a computer to — but those limits constrain the mechanism, not the judgement of a language model.

You are responsible for everything your agents do on your behalf: the prompts and topics you give them, the tools and endpoints you connect, the commands they run in their guests, the files they read or write, the cost of the model calls they make, and the accuracy and suitability of anything they produce. Model output can be wrong, incomplete or fabricated. Review it before you rely on it, and do not use the Software where an unreviewed automated action could cause harm, loss or a breach of an obligation you owe someone else.

5. Third-party services and content

The Software connects only to endpoints you configure — model providers, tool servers, catalogs and registries. Those services are operated by third parties under their own terms, pricing and privacy policies. You are responsible for having the right to use each service, for any fees it charges, and for the content you and your agents transmit to it. We do not operate, endorse, control or accept responsibility for any third-party service, its availability, or what it does with what you send it.

6. Agent computers and downloaded artifacts

Giving an agent a computer creates a Linux virtual machine on your Mac and downloads the runtime artifacts it needs — a container init image and a Linux kernel — from their public sources, after you confirm the download. Those artifacts are third-party software distributed under their own licences, including open-source licences; they are not ours and are not warranted by us. Commands requested by a model execute inside the guest and not on your host, and guest networking is off until you enable it per agent. The feature is off by default and turning it on is your decision.

7. Templates you import

A team template is a declarative document. It contains no executable assets and no credentials, and the Software asks you to review one before installing it. Even so, a template you obtained from someone else describes agents, instructions and tool requests written by that person. Read what you install. We are not responsible for the content or behaviour of templates authored by third parties.

8. Pre-release software

Quorum is early software, published before version 1.0. Features may change or be removed, and a release may change the on-disk format of your workspace without migrating data written by an earlier build. Export anything you would not want to re-create, and keep your own backups.

9. Intellectual property

The Software, the name "Quorum", its mark, and the contents of this website are owned by us and protected by copyright and other laws, except for third-party components used under their own licences. The content you create with the Software is yours. We claim no rights in your workspaces, transcripts, templates or outputs, and we never receive them. Rights in model output may also be affected by the terms of the model provider you used.

10. No warranty

THE SOFTWARE AND THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this exclusion may not apply to you in full.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR FOR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE CHARGES OR MODEL USAGE FEES INCURRED THROUGH THE SOFTWARE, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SOFTWARE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR FIFTY US DOLLARS. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Software, your agents' activity, your content, or your breach of these terms or of a third-party service's terms.

13. Termination

This licence continues until terminated. It terminates automatically if you breach these terms, and you may end it at any time by deleting the Software. Sections 9 through 12 survive termination. Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple under its policies.

14. Apple App Store terms

When you obtain the Software through the Mac App Store, the following apply:

These terms are between you and us only, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the Software or its content.
Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Software.
If the Software fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Software.
Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the Software, including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims.
Apple is not responsible for investigating, defending, settling or discharging any third-party claim that the Software infringes intellectual property rights.
You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States of America, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your place of residence.

16. Changes

We may update these terms; the current version is always posted here with its effective date. Continuing to use the Software after a change takes effect means you accept the revised terms. If you do not, stop using the Software.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms go to support@joesapps.net. The support page covers the app itself.