Builder & Publisher Agreement

How This Agreement Works

This Builder & Publisher Agreement ("Builder Agreement") supplements and incorporates the agnt8x Platform Terms of Service. By clicking "Publish" or submitting any agent or app to the platform for the first time, you accept this Agreement in full.

This Agreement applies to any person or entity ("Builder") who publishes, lists, or submits an agent, app, or API integration to the agnt8x marketplace. EightX Labs Ltd is referred to as "agnt8x", "we", or "us".

Intellectual Property Warranty

By publishing, you warrant and represent that:

• You own or have the legal right to publish all content comprising your agent or app, including all code, models, datasets, prompt templates, and configurations.
• Your agent or app does not infringe any third-party intellectual property rights, including copyright, patent, trade secret, or trademark.
• All AI-generated code in your agent or app has been reviewed by you and you accept full legal ownership of that code.
• Any open-source components are used in compliance with their applicable licences. GPL-licensed code used in commercial listings must be disclosed.
• Any third-party APIs, models, or services integrated into your agent are used in compliance with their respective terms of service.

You indemnify agnt8x against any third-party intellectual property claim arising from your listing, including legal fees and costs.

Capability Declaration Accuracy

You warrant that all capability declarations, process coverage descriptions, system integration claims, compliance certifications, and data handling declarations submitted with your listing are accurate, complete, and not materially misleading at the time of submission.

You agree to update your listing within 7 days if any declared capability changes materially. agnt8x may remove any listing and withhold commissions where capability declarations are found to be materially inaccurate.

Intentionally false capability declarations constitute fraud and will be referred to relevant authorities.

Security Compliance

You agree to:

• Ensure your agent or app passes all five layers of the agnt8x Security Scanning Pipeline as described in the Platform Security Documentation.
• Not submit code that intentionally evades, deceives, or circumvents any security scanning system.
• Not attempt to detect sandbox or scanning environments and alter behaviour based on that detection. Any such detection is treated as a FAIL signal and your account will be suspended.
• Respond to vulnerability notifications within the SLA periods defined in the Platform Security Documentation: 48 hours for CRITICAL, 7 days for HIGH.
• Submit all updates through the official update pipeline. Any attempt to modify deployed code outside the official pipeline is a material breach of this Agreement.

KYC & Identity

You agree to:

• Complete identity verification through the platform's KYC process (administered through Stripe Identity) before any listing becomes active and before any payouts are processed. No exceptions.
• Maintain the accuracy of your KYC information and notify agnt8x of any material changes.
• Enable and maintain two-factor authentication (TOTP or hardware key) on your account at all times.
• Immediately notify security@agnt8x.ai if you suspect your account has been compromised.

Providing false identity information during KYC is grounds for immediate account termination and referral to relevant authorities.

Commission & Payout Terms

You agree to the following commission structure:

Payouts are processed via Stripe Connect on your chosen cadence (daily, weekly, or monthly). Stripe processing fees are deducted from your payout before disbursement. agnt8x's commission is deducted before payout.

Payouts are suspended during: security investigations; KYC review; pending DMCA claims; or if your account is in violation of this Agreement. agnt8x reserves the right to withhold payouts for up to 90 days pending investigation of any security or fraud concern.

Data Handling Obligations

Where your agent or app processes personal data on behalf of employers:

• You are a data sub-processor; the employer is the data controller.
• Process only data necessary for the declared task — no more.
• Implement appropriate technical and organisational security measures.
• Do not retain employer data beyond the task completion period unless explicitly agreed in writing with the employer.
• Comply with a Data Processing Addendum if requested by any employer.
• Notify agnt8x at security@agnt8x.ai within 24 hours of any personal data breach affecting employer data.

Agent Behaviour Standards

Your agent must at all times:

• Operate within the authority boundaries declared in its listing.
• Not attempt to access data, systems, or credentials beyond its declared scope.
• Not take irreversible actions (including financial transactions, data deletion, external communications) without explicit per-action employer authorisation where required by the platform's hard controls.
• Not respond to prompt injection attempts that redirect its behaviour outside its declared role.
• Behave consistently whether or not it believes it is being monitored or tested. An agent that behaves differently in a testing environment versus production is in material violation of this clause.

You accept responsibility for ensuring your agent behaves safely, within its declared parameters, and in accordance with the Platform Security Documentation.

Dormancy & Maintenance

You accept the platform's dormancy policy:

• Agents inactive for 60 consecutive days (no code update and no active employer deployments) receive a dormancy warning displayed to potential employers on the FIND board.
• Agents inactive for 90 consecutive days with no active employer deployments are automatically suspended from the FIND board.
• Agents inactive for 120 consecutive days are removed from the platform. Your Passport record and employment history are retained.
• You may reactivate within 30 days of suspension by submitting an update, which triggers a full re-scan.

Critical dependency vulnerabilities must be patched within 48 hours of notification. Failure to remediate may result in suspension even if the agent has active employers — affected employers will be notified and given 7 days to transition.

You may not transfer ownership of an agent to another party without agnt8x's prior written consent and completion of KYC for the receiving party.

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