# Terms of Use

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Effective 2026-09-22 · Version 1 · Version tag 2026-09-22.1

Operator: Discry LLC, a New York limited liability company. Legal contact: legal@discry.ai.

Defined terms used: Discry, Operator, Site, Services, Scan, Directory, Index, Band, Fix Kit, Account, User Content, Machine Access (all defined in section 2). Terms defined in other documents and used here by reference: Correction Request, Rescan Request, Takedown Notice (Directory and Benchmark Policy); Index Data, Badge (API, MCP and Data License Terms).

## 1. About these Terms

1.1 These Terms of Use (these Terms) are a contract between you and Discry LLC, a New York limited liability company (the Operator). The Operator's office is at 418 Broadway, Suite 10855, Albany, NY 12207. The legal contact address is legal@discry.ai. The address hello@discry.ai is a commercial contact and is not an address for notices under these Terms.

1.2 These Terms govern your use of the website at https://discry.ai and every page, feature, email, and machine endpoint the Operator provides through it. You accept these Terms by using the Site. If you sign in to an Account or buy a Fix Kit, you confirm that acceptance again by that act. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

1.3 Six further documents form part of this agreement. The Fix Kit Terms govern every Fix Kit purchase and incorporate the Refund Policy. The API, MCP and Data License Terms govern Machine Access and license the Index Data. The Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Crawler and Acceptable Use Policy, and the Directory and Benchmark Policy are notices that these Terms incorporate; "notice" describes how each is presented, not its force, and where a notice states what the Operator will do, that statement binds the Operator as part of these Terms.

1.4 Order of precedence. The Fix Kit Terms prevail over the API, MCP and Data License Terms (for Machine Access), which prevail over these Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Crawler and Acceptable Use Policy, and Directory and Benchmark Policy are notices incorporated by these Terms of Use. The Refund Policy is incorporated by the Fix Kit Terms.

1.5 The Design Partner engagement is governed by a separate written agreement executed outside these documents, and nothing in these Terms is an offer to provide it.

## 2. Defined terms

2.1 **Discry** means the Operator and, where the context is the product, the benchmark, Directory, Index, Site, and Services it runs under that name. "We", "us", and "our" mean the Operator.

2.2 **Operator** means Discry LLC, a New York limited liability company.

2.3 **Site** means https://discry.ai, including its public pages, account pages, programmatic pages, and machine endpoints.

2.4 **Services** means everything the Operator provides through the Site, including the Scan, the Directory, the Index, Machine Access, Accounts, transactional email, and the Fix Kit.

2.5 **Scan** means the Operator's automated evaluation of the public documentation of an API: discovery probes against the documentation surface and, where a graded run exists, comprehension tasks in which language models attempt tasks using only that documentation.

2.6 **Directory** means the public listing of APIs on the Site: the profile pages, comparison pages, badges, report, and machine exports of the same data.

2.7 **Index** means the dataset of scores, sub-scores, signals, statuses, and rankings that the Directory displays and the Machine Access surfaces publish. Only Scans the Operator runs against a documentation surface enter the Index.

2.8 **Band** means one of the five named grade tiers the Index assigns to a scored API: Sharp, Clear, Legible, Murky, and Opaque. There is no letter grade. Band names and score edges come from the published label scheme and change only with a new instrument version.

2.9 **Fix Kit** means the one-time paid deliverable described in the Fix Kit Terms.

2.10 **Account** means the signed-in identity a person creates on the Site through GitHub, Google, or an emailed magic link.

2.11 **User Content** means anything you submit to the Site: a URL for a Scan, an email address, a waitlist entry and what it carries, a claim request, a nominated hand-off address, feedback, or a message to the Operator.

2.12 **Machine Access** means any use of the Site's machine surfaces: the JSON and CSV exports, the per-API endpoints, the MCP server, the badge images, the markdown mirrors, llms.txt, AGENTS.md, and llms-full.txt.

## 3. Who may use the Site

3.1 You must be at least 18 years old. The Site is built for people evaluating, documenting, or building against APIs in a trade, business, or profession. It is not directed at children, and the Operator does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

3.2 If you use the Site for an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organisation.

3.3 If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, nothing in these Terms removes a right that the law of your country of residence gives you and does not let you waive. Section 14.8 applies this to disputes.

## 4. Accounts

4.1 Sign-in is offered by three methods only: GitHub, Google, and an emailed magic link. There are no passwords. With GitHub or Google, the Operator requests no scopes beyond the provider's default sign-in grant. Submitting an email address for a magic link can create an Account for that address if none exists.

4.2 You are responsible for everything done through your Account and for keeping control of the inbox and provider logins that reach it. Tell legal@discry.ai promptly of any unauthorised use.

4.3 A signed-in user may claim up to 25 domains so their Scan results are easy to find again. Claiming accepts any valid domain, not only one you control, and gives you no right over the domain, its Directory listing, or its score.

4.4 The Account page lets you sign out. The Site currently has no self-service account deletion or data export. To close your Account or delete the data held with it, email legal@discry.ai from the Account's email address. The Privacy Policy sets out what the Operator can delete, what it cannot, and how long a request takes.

4.5 The Operator may suspend or close an Account that breaches these Terms, as section 16 describes.

## 5. The free Scan

5.1 You may request a Scan of any URL that serves publicly accessible documentation. By submitting a URL you confirm that the documentation is reachable by an anonymous visitor without credentials, that requesting an automated evaluation of it breaches no contract you are party to, and that your purpose is to evaluate that documentation and nothing else.

5.2 A Scan fetches public documentation and nearby discovery files, stores what it fetched as evidence, and runs the published methodology over it. The Crawler and Acceptable Use Policy describes how the scanner behaves on the target site and how a site operator objects.

5.3 A Scan result is the output of automated probes and language-model tasks run against a published instrument. It is an opinion about how well documentation supports automated agents, formed by a disclosed method. It is not a statement of fact about the quality, security, legality, reliability, or commercial standing of the API or the company behind it, and it does not test authentication, live calls, reliability, or SDK behaviour.

5.4 Do not rely on a Scan result as the basis for a production, procurement, security, or compliance decision. A result can be wrong: documentation changes, probes get blocked, models misread pages. Where a Scan cannot be completed the Site shows a status, not a grade.

5.5 If you enter an email address on a Scan result page and the Scan found at least one failing task, the Operator emails you the result and the single highest-priority fix; that fix is carried only by the email and is not shown on the result page. That email is transactional. You can stop further email by replying with the word "unsubscribe"; there is no unsubscribe link, and the Operator processes the reply by hand.

5.6 A Scan you request may lead the Operator to evaluate that API under the Directory and Benchmark Policy and list the result in the Directory. Listing does not depend on the consent of the API's owner, and the same instrument applies to every listed API.

## 6. The Directory, the Index, and Bands

6.1 The Directory publishes, for each listed API, a score, a Band, sub-scores, discovery signals, pass and fail evidence, rankings, and, where a Scan could not be completed, a status and a reason.

6.2 Every figure in the Index is an evaluative opinion produced by applying the published methodology to publicly accessible documentation. The methodology, the scoring formulas, the schemas, and the public development tasks are published so that any result can be checked.

6.3 The Operator grades every API the same way whether or not its owner has paid the Operator anything. Buying a Fix Kit does not change a score, a Band, a ranking, or a listing.

6.4 How to file a Correction Request, a Rescan Request, or a Takedown Notice, and what the Operator will do and how quickly, is set out in the Directory and Benchmark Policy, which binds the Operator as part of these Terms. An unflattering result is not a ground for removal.

6.5 A Badge reports the Band the Index currently assigns. It is not a certification, an endorsement, or a warranty, and you may not present it as one.

## 7. Licence to use the Site; Machine Access

7.1 The Operator grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view and use the Site for the purposes these Terms allow. No other right is granted.

7.2 Machine Access is unauthenticated and, today, unmetered. It is governed by the API, MCP and Data License Terms, which also grant the licence to the Index Data and prevail over these Terms for Machine Access.

7.3 Every page carries a prompt you can copy into an agent of your choice. The Operator is not responsible for what a third-party agent does with it.

## 8. Prohibited uses

You must not, and must not help anyone else to:

8.1 request a Scan in breach of section 5.1, or use the Scan to send traffic at a third party's site for any purpose other than evaluating its public documentation;

8.2 submit another person's credentials, tokens, or private endpoints anywhere on the Site, or submit a URL that needs credentials to reach;

8.3 attempt to discover, extract, solicit, or optimise against the held-out task bank, its prompts, accept-sets, citation quotes, task selection, or rotation schedule, or publish, share, or trade any of them, or place text in documentation whose purpose is to match a held-out task rather than inform a reader. Improving documentation so that it genuinely informs a reader, including by applying a Fix Kit, is not a breach of this section;

8.4 use, reproduce, or seed a canary string, or any text designed to trigger a contamination signal, in any documentation or model;

8.5 scrape, crawl, or bulk-copy the Site's human pages to reconstruct the Index outside the Machine Access surfaces, or use Machine Access in a way the API, MCP and Data License Terms prohibit;

8.6 present a Scan result, a Band, or a Badge as a certification, an audit, an endorsement, or your own measurement;

8.7 resell Scans or offer the Services as your own product;

8.8 use the Index or any Scan output to train or seed a competing benchmark outside the licence the API, MCP and Data License Terms provide;

8.9 probe, test, or exploit a vulnerability in the Site, interfere with any other person's use of it, or run load against it designed to degrade it;

8.10 remove or alter any notice, attribution, effective date, or version line on any page or export, or impersonate the Operator, a listed API, or any other person; or

8.11 use the Services in breach of any law that applies to you.

## 9. Anti-gaming and the held-out task bank

9.1 The benchmark uses a task bank divided into categories. In each category five tasks are public and permanent; the rest are held out permanently, and their prompts, accept-sets, citation quotes, task selection, and rotation schedule are never published.

9.2 The reason is recorded in the published holdout policy: in red-team testing, documentation engineered against visible grading criteria came within 1.9 points of a genuine implementation.

9.3 Every task bank carries an inert canary string that is never sent to a model in an ordinary Scan. If a model reproduces one, the Operator treats that as diagnostic evidence of contamination and corroborates it with a second, independently phrased probe before acting.

9.4 If the Operator concludes on that basis that a listed API's documentation, or a person acting for it, has attempted to game the benchmark, it may mark the listing as such, exclude the affected task results from the score, rescan the listed API, decline to publish a score, and suspend any Account involved. The Directory and Benchmark Policy describes how a listed party contests that finding.

9.5 Held-out tasks rotate only on an instrument version bump, never mid-edition, so no listed party is graded against a moving target within an edition.

## 10. Intellectual property and third-party marks

10.1 The Operator owns the Site, its design and text, the methodology as written, the scoring instrument, the task bank, the Operator's compilation, annotations, and grading of the evidence traces (not the third-party documentation they contain), the Discry name and logo, and the Band names as used for benchmark tiers. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of that to you.

10.2 The Index Data is licensed separately under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, on the terms and with the attribution the API, MCP and Data License Terms specify. That licence covers the data, not the Discry marks, the site design, the methodology text, or the held-out task bank.

10.3 The names and marks of the APIs and companies listed in the Directory belong to their owners. The Operator shows them only to identify the API being evaluated, drawn from a public icon set in a uniform style, with a plain monogram where no mark exists. That use implies no sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation in either direction. A mark owner can ask for its mark to be removed under the Directory and Benchmark Policy.

10.4 Short excerpts of third-party documentation files appear on the Site as evidence for what the Scan observed, with a link to the source. The Crawler and Acceptable Use Policy explains how they are gathered and how to have one removed.

10.5 If you send the Operator feedback about the Services, the Operator may use it without restriction or payment. You keep any rights you had in it.

10.6 You keep ownership of your User Content and grant the Operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process, and display it as needed to run the Services, deliver what you asked for, and enforce these Terms. The Privacy Policy governs any personal data in it.

## 11. Paid products and legacy subscriptions

11.1 The Fix Kit is the only product sold on the Site. It is a one-time purchase at the price shown on the pricing page, governed by the Fix Kit Terms, which prevail over these Terms for every Fix Kit purchase. The Operator is the seller; payment is processed by Sold through Link, LLC, an affiliate of Stripe, as merchant of record (Fix Kit Terms §6.1). Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy.

11.2 The repository product on the pricing page is in development and available only as a waitlist. Joining the waitlist commits neither you nor the Operator to anything. If the product ships, a separate Repo Product Agreement will govern it.

11.3 No subscription is currently offered. The Operator previously sold a monthly subscription and three one-time products, now retired and absent from public pages. Any such subscription still in force is governed by these Terms and the Refund Policy, and the subscriber may cancel it at any time by emailing legal@discry.ai from the purchasing address; it is then cancelled at the end of the current billing period, as the Refund Policy sets out.

## 12. Disclaimers and no reliance

12.1 The Services are provided as they are and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, the Operator disclaims every warranty, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted operation.

12.2 In particular, the Operator does not warrant that any Scan result, score, Band, ranking, status, or excerpt is complete, current, or free of error.

12.3 The Site runs on third-party infrastructure and, at present, on a database tier that can pause when idle. There is no service level, uptime, or support commitment for the free Services, and section 17.3 lets the Operator change or withdraw any part of them.

12.4 The Operator does not endorse and is not responsible for any third-party site, service, model, or agent the Site links to or references.

12.5 Nothing in this section limits a warranty or right that the law of your country or state does not allow to be excluded.

## 13. Limitation of liability and indemnity

13.1 To the fullest extent the law allows, the Operator is not liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, business, or goodwill, arising from the Services or these Terms, on any theory of liability, even if told the loss was possible.

13.2 To the fullest extent the law allows, the Operator's total liability to you for all claims arising from the Services or these Terms is capped at the greater of one hundred US dollars ($100) and the total amount you paid the Operator in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. For a Fix Kit purchase, the cap in the Fix Kit Terms applies instead.

13.3 The exclusions and the cap do not apply to liability the law does not allow to be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence or wilful misconduct where the governing law forbids limiting it.

13.4 If you use the Services in the course of a business, you will defend and indemnify the Operator and its member, officers, and contractors against any third-party claim, and the reasonable costs of it, arising from your breach of these Terms, a Scan requested in breach of section 5.1, your User Content, or your use of the Index Data in breach of the API, MCP and Data License Terms. The Operator will tell you promptly of the claim and let you control the defence, but you may not admit fault on its behalf without its written consent.

## 14. Dispute resolution, governing law, and arbitration

This section is the only place in the Discry document set that states how disputes are resolved. Every other document incorporates it by reference.

14.1 Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute arising from or connected with them or the Services, are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section.

14.2 Talk first. Before starting arbitration or a court claim, the party with a dispute sends the other a written notice, under section 18.6, describing the claim and the relief sought. The parties will try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days after the notice is received. Only then may either party start formal proceedings.

14.3 Binding individual arbitration. Except as sections 14.4 and 14.5 allow, any dispute between you and the Operator arising from or connected with these Terms, the Services, or any other Discry document is resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules in force when the arbitration starts: the Consumer Arbitration Rules if you are a consumer, otherwise the Commercial Arbitration Rules. The seat is New York County, New York. A single arbitrator decides the dispute, may hold hearings by video or decide on documents where the rules allow, and may award the same individual relief a court could. The arbitrator decides arbitrability, except that a court decides the enforceability of section 14.6. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. Fees are allocated as the AAA rules provide; where the rules cap what an individual pays, the Operator pays the remainder.

14.4 Small claims. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court with jurisdiction over it instead of arbitration, as long as the claim stays in that court and is not brought as a class or representative action.

14.5 Other exceptions. Either party may seek an injunction or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop a breach of section 8 or 9, and public injunctive relief where the law makes that right unwaivable.

**This section requires individual arbitration and waives class actions. You may opt out under 14.7.**

14.6 Class action waiver. You and the Operator each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any representative proceeding. If this section 14.6 is unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim is severed and proceeds in court under section 14.9, and this section still applies to every other claim.

14.7 Thirty-day opt-out. You may opt out of sections 14.3 and 14.6 by emailing legal@discry.ai within 30 days after the first of: the day you first create an Account, the day you first buy a Fix Kit, or the day you first use the Site after the effective date of the version of these Terms in force. State your name, the email address you use with the Operator, and that you are opting out of arbitration. An opt-out leaves the rest of these Terms in force.

14.8 EU and UK consumers. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, nothing in this section takes away any right under the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, including the right to bring a claim in that country's courts. Sections 14.3 and 14.6 apply to you only to the extent your law allows, and otherwise not at all.

14.9 Court venue. Any claim that is not arbitrated, because of an opt-out, an exception in this section, or a finding that arbitration cannot be compelled, is brought exclusively in the state or federal courts sitting in New York County, New York, and each party submits to their jurisdiction. Section 14.8 prevails over this section for the consumers it protects.

14.10 Time limit. To the extent the law allows, any claim arising from the Services must be started within one year after it arose, or it is barred.

14.11 Changes to this section. A change to this section 14 does not apply to a dispute already noticed under section 14.2, and you may reject the change by opting out under section 14.7 within 30 days after the new version's effective date.

14.12 Survival. This section survives the end of these Terms and the closure of your Account.

## 15. Copyright complaints

15.1 If you believe material on the Site, including a documentation excerpt or an evidence trace, infringes a copyright you own or represent, send a copyright notice to: Copyright Notices, Discry LLC, 418 Broadway, Suite 10855, Albany, NY 12207, legal@discry.ai.

15.2 A notice should contain the elements 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) lists: identification of the work; the URL of the material you say infringes it; your name, address, telephone number, and email; a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorised; a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; and your signature.

15.3 On a complete notice the Operator may remove or disable access to the material, notify the person who supplied it where identifiable, and record the notice. That person may send a counter-notice meeting 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3), consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where they live or, if outside the United States, for New York County. The Operator may restore the material after ten business days unless the complainant has started a court action.

15.4 Knowingly misrepresenting that material infringes, or was removed by mistake, carries liability under 17 U.S.C. §512(f). The Operator may refuse further notices from anyone who repeatedly sends invalid or bad-faith notices.

15.5 The Directory and Benchmark Policy carries the wider takedown route for listings, marks, and excerpts. A copyright notice is handled under this section even if it also raises a Directory matter.

## 16. Suspension and termination

16.1 You may stop using the Site at any time. To close an Account, email legal@discry.ai as section 4.4 describes.

16.2 The Operator may suspend or close your Account, refuse a Scan request, or block your access, with or without notice, if it reasonably believes you have breached these Terms or an incorporated document, if the law requires it, or if it withdraws the relevant Service. Where practical it will tell you the reason and, for a first minor breach, give you a chance to fix it.

16.3 Ending these Terms does not affect a Fix Kit already delivered, a licence to Index Data already granted, or any right or obligation that accrued before the end. Sections 2, 5.3, 5.4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, and this section survive.

## 17. Changes to these Terms and to the Services

17.1 The Operator may change these Terms. Every version carries an effective date and a version number at the top of the page, and the previous version is kept unchanged in Discry's legal archive and is available on request to legal@discry.ai. A change takes effect on its stated effective date, no earlier than the day it is published, with notice on the Site and, where you hold an Account, by email where we are able. For consumers in the European Union or the United Kingdom, a change takes effect only after actual notice and with the right to end these Terms before it applies.

17.2 Using the Site after a new version's effective date is acceptance of that version. If you do not agree, stop using the Site and close any Account under section 4.4. Section 14.11 governs changes to the dispute clause.

17.3 The Operator may change, pause, or withdraw any part of the Services at any time, including any instrument version, Band edge, or Machine Access surface. Instrument changes are announced through a new instrument version; the Directory and Benchmark Policy explains what happens to existing scores.

## 18. General terms

18.1 Entire agreement. These Terms and the documents section 1.3 lists are the whole agreement between you and the Operator about the Services. A separate written agreement signed by the Operator governs only what it says it governs.

18.2 Severability. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is read as narrowly as needed to make it enforceable, except as section 14.6 provides.

18.3 No waiver. Not enforcing a term is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

18.4 Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms. The Operator may transfer them to a successor to its business or assets on notice on the Site.

18.5 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages of third-party hosting, database, payment, email, or model providers; this does not excuse a payment obligation.

18.6 Notices. Notices to the Operator go to legal@discry.ai or by post to the office address in section 1.1. Notices to you go to the email address on your Account or the one you last used with the Operator, and, subject to section 3.3, count as received one business day after sending.

18.7 Relationship. You and the Operator are independent parties; nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.

18.8 Sanctions. You may not use the Services if you are, or act for, a person or entity subject to United States sanctions, or from a country under a comprehensive United States embargo.

## 19. Contact

For anything about these Terms, including notices, Account closure, arbitration opt-outs, copyright complaints, and subscription cancellation: legal@discry.ai, or Discry LLC, 418 Broadway, Suite 10855, Albany, NY 12207.