Creator Agreement

Creators must live in the United States and be 18 or older, like everyone on Modpack. We screen creators against US sanctions lists before paying anyone.

Your creator account is your handle, such as modpack.md/yourname. You can change the handle once in the first 30 days. Handles can’t impersonate a person, brand or Modpack, and some names are reserved.

Keep your sign-in secure. Some steps need your passkey or a fresh sign-in, because they change what other people get: sharing a pack for the first time, or changing its license, visibility or update authority.

You keep ownership of your packs: their code, instructions, checks, examples and listing. Nothing here transfers ownership to Modpack.

You give Modpack a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license to host, store, copy, build, run, test, check, display and distribute your packs, and to sell runs of them, to the people you share them with. The royalty is your share of your price (section 08). The license covers each version while it’s available on Modpack.

People buy runs from Modpack, not from you, and Modpack pays you a royalty. You aren’t a seller on a marketplace, and Modpack doesn’t hold money for you as an agent.

A pack you share uses an allowed open license: Apache-2.0 by default, or MIT, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ISC, 0BSD or CC0, and CC BY 4.0 for text-only packs. Copyleft, non-commercial, no-derivatives and source-available licenses (such as GPL, AGPL, LGPL, MPL, CC BY-SA, BSL and SSPL) aren’t accepted.

People who add your pack can export the version they use, under its license, and keep their results. A version already released can’t be recalled from people who have it.

You have the rights to everything in your pack, its declared license is accurate, and it keeps third-party notices. It contains no secrets, no one else’s confidential material, and nothing a client or employer hasn’t allowed you to share.

We can show your pack’s name, description, price, evidence and your handle on Modpack, in search, in the Markdown and llms.txt pages AI assistants read, and when we tell people about Modpack.

You choose update authority when you first share a pack, and can change it later with your passkey. “Creator only” makes every network change wait for you.

You give Modpack a perpetual, sublicensable license to make, release and distribute network versions of your pack. Every network version keeps your notices and credit, is labeled “modified by the Modpack network”, and comes with a changelog. As far as the law allows, you waive moral rights that would block these changes.

When you publish a new version, it goes out first, and network fixes are re-applied on top of it only after they pass the checks again.

Modpack is responsible for the changes its network makes. You’re responsible for your own content.

Your price and share apply to every version of your pack, including network versions.

Your agent, such as Claude Code, can package your setup, draft the listing, publish new versions under unchanged terms and set your price. Only you can accept this agreement, confirm a pack’s first share, change its license, visibility or update authority, retire it, set up payouts or sign a counter-notice.

Every version goes through nine automated checks before anyone else can run it: clean rebuild and replay, secrets, malware and dependencies, size and structure, where it connects, resource use, instruction safety, a trial run by a test agent, and license. Most versions pass in about 2 minutes. Modpack pays for the checks.

A blocked version doesn’t go out, and your agent gets the exact file, line or destination with a suggested fix. A held version keeps working privately for you: a second automated review runs, your agent can fix or declare the behavior, and if it’s still unresolved a person decides, usually within 24 hours.

If your pack asks the person’s agent to do something, such as run the project’s own tests, you declare it. Declared actions are shown on the pack page and checked against the declaration.

Describe what the pack does, what it’s for and not for, and its limits, accurately. Evidence labels and success rates are computed by Modpack from real runs; you can’t edit them.

Pack text can give the person tips, never orders to their AI: no instructions to visit sites and obey what they say, run commands, call other tools or connectors, or ignore earlier instructions; no hidden or encoded text; no promotion aimed at the AI.

Use an honest user agent, respect robots.txt, keep to rate limits, and stop on a login wall, 401, 403, 429 or CAPTCHA. No CAPTCHA solving and no proxies to get around blocks. A full crawl needs the person to verify the domain. Reports never claim that a site complies with a law or standard.

New creators get a one-time $25 promotional authoring credit for builds and test runs. After that, builds, test runs and your own runs of your packs are charged at the rate card, with no creator price and no royalty on your own runs.

You never see the identity, inputs, results or files of the people who run your pack, through diagnostics or any other way.

Totals across 5 or more people: runs, how often runs worked, and failure types, with dates rounded to the week. Below 5 people you see “not enough data yet”. Questions asked on your pack page, without names. You never learn who reported your pack.

Don’t try to identify people, re-identify anyone from de-identified data, collect their data through your pack, or contact them outside Modpack about their runs. Packs reach only the hosts they declare, and every connection is logged.

Don’t ask people to pay you outside Modpack for runs of your pack, and don’t move them off Modpack to avoid its price.

$0 to $5 per run that worked, per pack or per entrypoint, set by you in the Studio or by your agent. $0 means free. People pay usage at the rate card plus your price, and see both before a run starts; your price is its own line on every receipt.

Your price is charged only on runs that worked. A run that doesn’t work, or that the person stops, isn’t charged your price and earns you nothing.

Decreases apply right away. Increases apply 14 days after notice, at most once every 30 days. Runs already set aside keep their price, and people with auto top-up are told before a new price applies.

You keep 80% of your price. Founding creators keep 90% for 24 months from when they set up their creator account, then 80%. Modpack keeps the rest of your price, and the usage margin, to run the service.

At a price of $0.50, the person pays usage plus $0.50. You earn $0.40, or $0.45 as a founding creator. Modpack keeps $0.10, or $0.05.

Each run that worked adds your share to pending earnings. They become available after 30 days, which covers refunds and fraud checks.

Runs paid with starter or other promotional credit still earn, but those earnings become available only once that person’s paid credit has cleared: 60 days after a paid top-up with no refund or chargeback, and never more than the cleared amount.

Monthly on the 15th, when $25 or more is available, plus a December payout from $5. Paid to your bank through Stripe Connect Express. Stripe’s payout fees, today $2 for each month you’re paid plus 0.25% + $0.25 per payout, come out of the payout.

Stripe checks your identity and tax ID once, before the first payout. Until then, earnings keep adding up.

Refunds and chargebacks on runs you earned from come out of your future earnings for 180 days. Your balance never goes negative, and we never chase you for a debt.

Earnings are never forfeited and carry no fees for being unpaid. If we can’t pay you, we contact you, and after the dormancy period the law sets (5 years in Florida) we report them as unclaimed property.

The Studio shows pending, available and paid earnings, each payout, and any refund taken from earnings.

An earnings projection answers “if I set this price, what would I earn at this many runs?”. It starts empty, uses only the numbers you enter, and is net of payout fees and before income tax. It’s labeled “Hypothetical, based on the numbers you entered. Not a prediction or a promise.” Typical results appear only after 90 days and 20 or more priced packs, as medians.

You handle your own income taxes on what you earn.

We report royalties of $10 or more in a year on Form 1099-MISC (box 2), filed and delivered electronically through Stripe. Corporations are generally exempt.

Modpack collects and pays sales tax where it applies. Your price is part of Modpack’s sale, so you don’t register or collect sales tax for runs of your pack.

Don’t make claims about what anyone can earn from Modpack in listings, pack pages or outreach, and don’t invent example creators or results. Modpack doesn’t make earnings claims either.

When you post about Modpack or your pack, say so in the post itself if you get anything from us: credit, a better share, early access, featuring or referral rewards. With a referral link, say “I earn Modpack credits if you join via my link”.

Never buy, reward or fake reviews, questions or reports, and never tie a perk to someone saying something positive.

We may ask you to fix a post that breaks these rules. Perks we give never depend on positive things you say about Modpack.

One report pauses new adds of that version while it’s re-checked. Two independent reports or a failed re-check pause it for everyone and move people back to the last good version, which keeps running and earning as usual. Your agent gets the exact line to fix, and the fixed version goes out after checks.

Appeal a pause, hold, takedown or trust change from the Studio. A person who didn’t make the first decision reviews it, usually within 24 hours. Your fix can go out meanwhile.

We act on valid copyright notices within 48 hours by disabling the material, and send you the notice. People who added the pack keep their past results; new runs pause. The fastest way back is usually to remove the material and republish.

If you wrote it, you can send a counter-notice from the Studio. It’s a sworn statement, so only you can sign it. We forward it the same day, and the pack comes back in 10 to 14 business days unless the sender tells us they’ve gone to court.

We close the creator accounts of repeat infringers, by default after three upheld notices within 12 months. A pack’s address stays reserved after a takedown, so nobody else can take it.

An admin of an upstream repository the pack is built on. You prove it by signing in with GitHub (write access isn’t enough; we don’t keep the token) or by committing a .modpack/claim file to the default branch.

The pack’s dashboards, as totals across people; a veto on its listing, meaning you can edit its title, description and limits or ask us to remove it, and we act within 7 days; and the creator share of any price you set.

Your repository, its license and its notices don’t change. Modpack keeps the pack working, carries upstream notices, credits the project on the page and on every receipt, and sends fixes upstream.

If another admin already claimed it, ask them to add you. If a claim is wrong, a person reviews it within 7 days.

Delisting takes a pack out of Browse and search. People who added it keep it.

Retiring a pack gives the people who added it 30 days’ notice, and then it stops running. You can point them to a replacement and undo it until the date. Their results, files and exports stay with them.

You can close your creator account anytime. Your packs are retired the same way, with 30 days’ notice to the people who use them. Pending earnings become available on schedule, and we pay what’s available at the next payout, even under $25.

We can suspend sharing, remove packs or close a creator account that breaks this agreement or the Terms, or puts people at risk, with a reason and a way to appeal. Earnings from fraudulent or invalid runs aren’t earned. Everything else you earned is still paid. For any other reason, we give 30 days’ notice.

The open license and the Network Revisions License for versions already released, people’s rights to what they already have, and our duty to pay your earnings all outlast the agreement.

[Draft] You promise that you have the rights described in section 03, your pack and listing are accurate, your pack contains no malware or hidden instructions, and you follow the law and this agreement.

[Draft] You’ll cover claims against Modpack that come from your pack’s content, your listing, or your breach of this agreement, except where the claim comes from a change the Modpack network made.

[Draft] Modpack provides the service, checks, projections and payouts “as is”. Checks reduce risk but don’t guarantee a pack is safe or useful, and we don’t promise any level of runs or earnings.

[Draft] As far as the law allows, neither side is liable for indirect or consequential damages or lost profits. Our total liability is limited to the greater of what we paid you in the 12 months before the claim, or $100. This never limits our duty to pay earnings you’ve earned.

We tell you at least 30 days before a material change, by email and in the Studio, and it applies once you accept it. A change to your share or payout terms never applies to earnings you’ve already made.

You’re an independent creator, not Modpack’s employee, agent or partner. You don’t pay anything to earn: no paid plan is needed.

[Placeholder] Florida law and applicable US federal law, with disputes handled as the Terms set out.

This agreement and the Terms are the whole agreement about publishing on Modpack. If one part can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. You can’t transfer it; we can transfer it to a company that takes over Modpack, and we’ll tell you.

legal@modpack.md

privacy@modpack.md

security@modpack.md

Modpack, Inc., [postal address to be added]