Using Aperture
Terms
The rules for the hosted editor. Twelve short sections. The privacy page is the one that says what leaves the browser. The security page covers threat model, sandboxes, and disclosure.
1. These terms
These terms cover the hosted Aperture editor. If you use the site, you agree to them. The source code is separate: it is under the MIT license, and running your own copy is the same program on a machine you control.
2. The service
Aperture is an editor in the browser. You open a project, ask for a change, and decide what to keep. The hosted site can be unavailable, slow, or changed. It is offered as it is. A green check is not a promise that a change is correct, safe, or ready to ship.
3. Accounts
You sign in with email, or with Grok where that button is offered. The account holds your settings, the plan label, and the secrets you choose to save. You are responsible for the password and for what is done with the account. Signing out ends the session in that browser.
4. Your projects
You choose the folder, zip, or repository you open. You need the right to put that code into the editor and, when you send, to pass it to the provider you picked. Do not open a repository you are not allowed to send. Aperture does not claim your code. What a send includes, and what stays in the tab, is on the privacy page.
5. Keys and other companies
You attach your own key for Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, or a custom endpoint. That company bills you under their terms. Aperture does not use a shared key. If the key you picked is missing, the send stops. A GitHub token, if you connect one, is used only for the GitHub actions you take. Those companies see what their own terms say they see.
6. Checks
Parse, imports, types, the preview, and the test run are tools. A pass means that step succeeded. It does not mean the change is right. You choose Apply. The built-in test runner has no network. A project that needs a real Node may run elsewhere, and that run follows that host’s terms.
7. The public demo
aperturesais.grok.me answers from recorded runs. It does not call a model provider. It is for looking at the editor, not for keeping a private repository.
8. Price
The hosted site does not charge you today. Prices marked “coming soon” are not on sale. A provider you call with your own key charges you on their side. If a paid plan is offered later, the price is the one shown at the time you choose it, and these terms will say so.
9. Acceptable use
Do not use the editor to break into a system, to send code you have no right to send, or to hide a key in a prompt on purpose. Do not hammer the hosted site so that other people cannot use it. We can refuse a send or close an account that is used this way.
10. Stopping
You can stop by signing out. You can delete the account from Settings. That removes the saved project, the keys, the GitHub token, the account, and the copy in that browser. We can suspend the hosted site, or an account that breaks these terms. Your own copy of the MIT source is not affected.
11. Changes
If these terms change, the page changes, and the date below changes. Using the hosted site after that means you accept the new terms. The date of this version is 4 October 2026.
12. Contact
Questions about these terms go to the public repository: github.com/Hankaws/aperture.