Terms of Service
1. What hermosskills does
hermosskills is a curated, trust-first marketplace for AI-agent skills. The platform is operated under "A Peter Bjork project." We offer three transaction types:
- Skill Sponsorship — recurring monthly funding that keeps an existing skill maintained and reviewed.
- Skill Commissions — a $500 deposit toward commissioning a new skill or feature, scoped with you and the maintainer.
- Founding Sponsor — a higher tier of monthly sponsorship with a permanent credit on the sponsored skill's page.
30% of every transaction flows to a public-good AI project (we publish the receiving project quarterly). The remainder funds the maintainer, the platform, and ongoing editorial review.
2. Editorial standards
Every skill on hermosskills is reviewed for consent, legality, privacy, non-harm, and human-approval gating before it is listed. Reviewer decisions are final, but maintainers can resubmit after addressing feedback. We do not curate based on politics or partisanship; we curate based on whether the skill could be safely used by a general-audience agent operator.
Skills can be removed from the catalog at any time if a security issue is discovered, if the maintainer abandons it, or if our editorial standards change. Removed sponsorships are paused and refunded pro-rata.
3. Skill sponsorships
When you start a Skill Sponsorship, you agree to fund a specific listed skill at the rate shown on its page (currently $49 USD/month) until canceled.
Sponsorship funds are applied to:
- Maintainer compensation (the largest share).
- Platform operations (hosting, payment processing, review time).
- The public-good rebate (30% of every transaction, per our funding model).
Sponsorships renew automatically on the same day each month at the then-current price. We will give you 30 days' notice before any price change applies to existing sponsors.
4. Commissions
A $500 commission deposit secures a 30-minute scoping call with the listed maintainer for that commission slot. During scoping we agree on deliverables, milestones, and a total project price. The deposit is credited toward the final project price.
If scoping does not result in an agreed project, the deposit is refunded less a $50 covering the maintainer's scoping time. See the Refund Policy for full details.
Custom work performed under a commission is owned by you (the commissioner) per the project agreement, with a perpetual, non-exclusive license back to the maintainer to keep the underlying skill module in the catalog. Specific ownership terms are spelled out in each project's statement of work before any work begins.
5. Founding sponsors
Founding Sponsors (currently $250 USD/month) receive:
- A "Founding Sponsor" credit on the sponsored skill's detail page, with your name or logo.
- Early access to new commissions and features for the duration of the sponsorship.
- A quarterly editorial briefing from the hermosskills curator.
If you cancel Founding Sponsorship, the credit is removed at the end of the current billing period. The credit is optional — you can choose to remain anonymous.
6. Payments
Payments are processed by Stripe. By paying, you agree to Stripe's terms of service in addition to ours. We never see or store your card number.
Sponsorships are billed monthly. Commissions bill the $500 deposit at checkout; the remaining project price is billed against milestones as spelled out in the statement of work.
7. Refunds and cancellation
You can cancel any sponsorship at any time from the link in any receipt email or by emailing us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period — we do not prorate partial months.
If you cancel a sponsorship within 14 days of a charge and the sponsored skill has not been materially updated during that period (a "material update" means a published release, not a comment-only commit), email us and we will refund that month.
Commission refund handling is described in the Refund Policy. Because commissions involve a maintainer's time, the deposit is non-refundable once scoping has been delivered.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to use hermosskills — including any funded skills — for:
- Anything illegal under US federal law or the law of your state.
- Generating content that targets, harasses, or harms a specific individual.
- Producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM); we will report this to NCMEC and cooperate fully with law enforcement.
- Circumventing copyright, licensing, or terms-of-service on third-party services.
- Spam, bulk messaging, or denial-of-service attacks.
- Funding a skill whose intended purpose you have misrepresented to us; we may terminate the sponsorship and refund the most recent month.
If we suspect a violation, we may pause the sponsorship while we investigate.
9. Intellectual property
The hermosskills name, logo, catalog layout, and editorial copy are owned by "A Peter Bjork project." You may reference and link to us; you may not resell or rebrand the marketplace.
Each skill listed in the catalog is licensed by its maintainer under the terms shown on the skill's page. Sponsorship funds maintenance, not transfer of ownership.
10. Warranty and limitation of liability
We curate with reasonable care. We do not guarantee that any particular skill will produce accurate, complete, or useful output for every use case. AI agent skills can and do fail. Use your judgment, especially for safety-, medical-, legal-, or financial-critical paths; insert human approval gates where appropriate.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising from hermosskills is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.
Some states do not allow limitations on certain warranties or damages; in those states, the limitations above apply only to the maximum extent permitted.
11. Changes to these terms
If we change these terms in a material way, we will update the "Effective" date, post a banner on the home page, and email active sponsors at least 30 days before the change takes effect.
12. Contact and disputes
hermosskills is a project of Peter Bjork. Reach us through the Hermosskills contact form. Requests are queued for human review before any reply is sent.
We will try to resolve any dispute informally first. If we cannot, you agree that any formal dispute will be handled in the state and federal courts located in the state of our principal place of business, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing in this section prevents you from filing a complaint with your state attorney general, the US Federal Trade Commission, or your credit card issuer.
This is a plain-language summary of standard marketplace terms. It is not legal advice. If you have specific legal questions, consult a lawyer licensed in your state.