These Survey Contribution Terms (the "Terms") govern the PX-failure survey — the self-audit you run from the survey page — and your decision to send us its result. In them, "Chordio," "we," and "us" mean Chordio, Inc.; "you" means the person who runs the survey and chooses to send us the result. Sending us a submission means you agree to everything below. How we handle the data you send is described in our separate Survey Privacy Notice, which forms part of these Terms.
In plain terms: you run a prompt on your own machine, it produces a small summary designed to minimize identifiers, you review and redact it, and — only if you choose to — you send it to us. When you send it, you let us use it in our research, the public benchmark, and our papers and products, and you confirm you have the right to share it. We keep the raw data confidential; anything we publish is aggregated, and we may keep some or all findings confidential. You can ask us to delete your submission for as long as we hold it.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to contribute. If you contribute on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind it to these Terms, and "you" includes that organization.
2. Voluntary, and run locally
The survey prompt runs entirely on your own machine against your own coding-agent session history. It analyzes that history locally and prints a small JSON summary plus a readable digest. To study how setup affects quality, it also notes which coding-agent skills and rules files are installed and which you used in those sessions — recording public skill names, counts (not names) of any custom ones, and only whether a rules file such as CLAUDE.md is present, never its contents. It writes nothing to your code and sends nothing anywhere on its own. Taking part is voluntary, you can stop at any point, and you decide whether to send us anything at all.
3. Review and redact before you send
The summary is designed to contain only counts and short quotes, with identifiers minimized. Before you share it, review it and remove anything you would not want to share. Do not include source code, full prompts, file paths, repository names, client or employer names, secrets, or credentials. Evidence quotes are limited to 200 characters and may be paraphrased to remove sensitive detail. When in doubt, redact. You are responsible for what your submission contains.
4. What you confirm when you contribute
The material you send us is your "submission." By sending us a submission, you represent and warrant that:
- you are providing it voluntarily and have all rights necessary to share it with us and to grant the license in section 5;
- sharing it does not breach any obligation you are under, including any non-disclosure, employment, contractor, or client agreement;
- it contains no third-party confidential information, no personal data about other people, no secrets or credentials, and no source code, repository names, or client or employer names; and
- it does not violate any law or the rights of any third party.
The review-and-redact step in section 3 is how you meet these commitments.
5. The rights you grant us
Subject to the deletion, withdrawal, and other privacy rights described in section 13 and in the Survey Privacy Notice, by sending us a submission you grant Chordio a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, aggregate, publish, and create derivative works from it, for any purpose connected with our research, the PX-bench benchmark, our public and academic papers, and our products and services, including commercial ones. This includes the right to publish short verbatim or redacted quotes drawn from the evidence you provide.
That license lets us use the copy you send us unless and until we delete the linked raw submission in response to a valid deletion or withdrawal request. It also lets us keep and use research outputs, aggregate findings, papers, public methodology, and redacted examples that were created or published before we completed that request. Nothing in this section limits rights you may have under applicable privacy law.
You keep ownership of your submission. This is a license, not a transfer of ownership — you are not giving up any right to your own data, only letting us use the copy you send us.
6. The digest is informational only
Alongside the JSON, the survey prints a readable digest of what it found in your sessions. The digest and any other output of the prompt are provided for your information only. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and they do not constitute legal, financial, security, or other professional advice. You are solely responsible for evaluating the output and for any decision you make based on it.
7. How we handle the corpus
We pool submissions into a private research corpus. We keep the raw submissions and the pooled corpus confidential. Whether to publish findings at all is at our sole discretion — we may keep some or all of them confidential, for example if the results are not meaningful, or for any other reason. If and when we do publish, what we make public is limited to aggregate findings, our methodology, and short redacted examples — never your raw submission, and never in a form meant to single you out. Keeping the corpus confidential and limiting any publication to aggregates is deliberate, and it is what lets us share useful results, when we choose to, without exposing any contributor's work.
We may give limited access to service providers, contractors, or professional advisers who help us store, secure, analyze, or publish the corpus, but only under confidentiality and use restrictions appropriate to their role. If we use an AI service provider for corpus analysis in the future, it will receive only the corpus data needed for that work, not your contact details, and it must process the data only for us and under written restrictions.
8. Privacy
What we receive when you contribute, how we store and separate it, how long we keep it, and your privacy rights are described in the Survey Privacy Notice. By contributing you also agree to that notice.
9. Feedback
If you send us feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the survey or PX-bench ("feedback"), you agree we may use it without restriction and without any obligation to you, including any compensation or duty of confidentiality. Feedback is separate from your submission and is not covered by the confidentiality commitments in section 7.
10. Your indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Chordio and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to a breach of your representations in section 4 — for example, a claim by an employer, client, or other third party that your submission was not yours to share or contained their confidential information.
11. No warranty
The survey prompt runs locally on your machine and is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that it will run without error or that its output will be accurate or complete. You are responsible for reviewing and redacting its output before you send it to us.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Chordio will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or related to the survey, your contribution, or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the survey and these Terms will not exceed one hundred US dollars (US $100). The survey is provided free of charge; this cap reflects that allocation of risk.
13. Deletion — what we can and cannot undo
For as long as we hold your submission, we can delete it and your contact data on request — we keep the link between your identity and your submission for the life of the submission, as described in the Privacy Notice. Once your contribution has been pooled into aggregate findings that we have published, we can no longer single out or remove your specific contribution from those findings. Already-published aggregate findings, papers, public methodology, and redacted examples are not automatically retracted; if you believe a redacted example identifies you, contact us and we will review it.
14. Governing law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Informal resolution first. If you have a dispute with us, contact support@chordio.com first; we will try to resolve it informally, and most disputes can be settled that way.
Courts. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the survey that we cannot resolve informally will be resolved exclusively in the state and federal courts located in King County, Washington, and you and Chordio each consent to their jurisdiction and venue, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court.
Jury and class-action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and Chordio each waive any right to a jury trial and any right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action. If this waiver is found unenforceable for a particular dispute, it is severed for that dispute and the rest of these Terms remain in effect.
Consumers with mandatory rights. If you contribute as a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law gives you rights, protections, or a forum that cannot be waived by contract (for example, the EU or UK), nothing in these Terms deprives you of them, and this section applies to you only to the extent that law allows.
15. Changes and contact
We may update these Terms; the version and date at the top will change when we do. If a change materially affects how we may use a submission we already hold, we will notify you at the email address you submitted with before relying on the change for that submission. Continued contribution after an update means you accept the current version. Questions: support@chordio.com.
16. General
These Terms, together with the Survey Privacy Notice, are the entire agreement between you and Chordio about the survey and supersede any prior understanding on the subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the unenforceable provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or successor, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.